Return to Christianity and help take our country back

Dear editor:

I would like to straighten something out. There is no such statement, word or phrase as "separation of church and state" in the Constitution. The only place that wording shows up is in a letter to a Baptist minister from Thomas Jefferson telling him that his church would not be interfered with in their practices of religion..

And "E Pluribus Unum" means "Out of many states, one nation," not the popular thought that it means of many nationalities, religions, ideologies.

Let all of us Americans get back to our Christian upbringing and get our country back.

-- John Garner

Editor's note: E pluribus unum directly translates as: "Out of many, one."

Other than Jefferson's letter, the phrase "separation of church and state" first entered the law as a result of a 1948 Supreme Court decision, McCollum v. Board of Education Dist. 71, where the court ruled that religious instruction in public schools constituted a violation of the Establishment Clause of the Constitution.