James Dobson schools Larry King on “separation of church and state”
November 27, 2006 at 9:26 pm | In Church & State | Leave a CommentDr. James Dobson and Larry King had the following exchange on Dobson’s recent appearance on Larry King Live.
KING: Why is it a state institution rather than a religious institution? Why is the state involved?
DOBSON: Well, it’s both. It is both.
KING: But we have a separation of church and state.
DOBSON: Beg your pardon?
KING: We have a separation of church and state.
DOBSON: Who says?
KING: You don’t believe in separation of church and state?
DOBSON: Not the way you mean it. The separation of church and state is not in the Constitution. No, it’s not. That is not in the Constitution.
KING: It’s in the Bill of Rights.
DOBSON: It’s not in the Bill of Rights. It’s not anywhere in a foundational document. The only place where the so-called “wall of separation” was mentioned was in a letter written by (Thomas) Jefferson to a friend. That’s the only place. It has been picked up and made to be something it was never intended to be.
What it has become is that the government is protected from the church, instead of the other way around, which is that church was designed to be protected from the government.
KING: I’m going to check my history.
By all means, Larry, check your history.
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