Towery on Separation of Church and State

Britt Towery had a very good Op-Ed on separation of church and state published in the Brownwood Bulletin yesterday. After summarizing the ignoble history uniting church and state from Constantine up to the colonization of America, here's Towery's conclusion:

This Old World church custom of linking state with church spread to the American colonies, where witch trials were common in church circles. Christians killed or exiled from the some colonies for not going along with the Pilgrims view of scripture and custom.

The Founding Fathers knew that history. They were closer than we are to understanding the wisdom of the state not telling the church what to do, and the churches not telling the government what to do. When neither lords it over the other, they both do their job better.