Which American politician said this? (2)
On Sunday, I did a posting with a quote on the separation of church and state and asked which American politician had said it. I promised you the answer today. The answer is Barry Goldwater in the US Senate in 1981 and you can find more information on his trenchant views here.
Contrary to what many non-Americans believe, not all Republicans want to bring religion into politics and certainly the US Constitution is clear that there should be a separation of church and state.
Here in the UK, we sort of pride ourselves on how we see religious belief as a private matter and not something to be part of political discourse, but our head of state is also head of the Church of England and some senior CoE bishops have seats as of right in the unelected House of Lords. As Americans would say: go figure.