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President George Bush And The Separation Of Church And State.(Brief Article)

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| February 01, 2001 | COPYRIGHT 1999 Americans United for Separation of Church and State. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Attorney General nominee John D. Ashcroft has some decidedly controversial views on the relationship between religion and government in America.

In a May 1999 speech at Bob Jones University, he outlined some of them. "Unique among the nations," said Ashcroft, "America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus."

Ashcroft traced his assertion about the kingship of Jesus to Americans of the Revolutionary War period. Those early Americans, he said, rebuffed the king's tax collectors by declaring their reliance on Jesus, not…

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