The far-right's priority to undo church-state separation is back with a vengeance. (via MaddowBlog)
The so-called “culture war” is not new, though the focus on specific social issues tends to shift over time. Recently, for example, the right’s culture warriors have put together a lengthy list of priorities, some of which are relatively new: Social conservatives’ to-do list includes everything from abortion restrictions to book banning, anti-trans measures to hysterics about critical race theory.
But to the extent that opposition to the separation of church and state faded as a far-right priority, it’s clearly back with a vengeance. There was some evidence of this at the U.S. Supreme Court last year. Justice Neil Gorsuch, for example, used rhetoric about church-state separation that
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