Constitutional Expert Exposes Establishment Clause Error
by Chad Groening
May 26, 2004
(AgapePress) - A Christian attorney who specializes in the United States Constitution says he wants to set the record straight about the myth of "the separation of Church and State."Dee Wampler, who practices law in Springfield, Missouri, has appeared on Good Morning America and similar programs, seeking to negate the "lie" that he contends is being advanced by liberals -- that the U.S. Constitution mandates a total separation between the Church and the State.
The Christian attorney says he has grown "sick and tired" of this and other oft-repeated lies that make the rounds in American society. He claims there are some "great lies in the country today" and cites a few examples, such as "I'm from the government and I'm here to help you," and "The check is in the mail."
But the third biggest untruth being touted as fact in modern society, the constitutional expert says, "is that there is a separation of Church and State, and it's in the Constitution. And that is a big lie."
Wampler has written and published a book called The Myth of Separation Between Church and State (Winepress, 2003), which he hopes will help dispel this commonly held belief. He says revisionists have tried to erase the truth about America's origins.
Thanks to revisionist history, the author says, U.S. citizens are no longer taught that their country was founded as a Christian nation by Christian people. As a result, he believes Americans have lost their moral compass.
"Worse, than that," Wampler says, "we are revising our history today to be politically correct. And as a lawyer who specializes in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, I decided it was time to help set the record straight."
Through The Myth of Separation Between Church and State, Wampler seeks to document the origin of the widely-believed fallacy and to show that there is nothing in the U.S. Constitution that deals with a separation between religion and government.
