To: President Donald Trump, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate
A "Wall of Separation"
I would like to propose that any person or persons running either together (as in a 'Political Ticket') or separately for publicly held office on either the state or federal level; be prohibited from using the language, symbols or printed materials of any religion, in an active campaign. Or, if elected, in any address to the public not within a house of worship.
Why is this important?
In his letter to the Danbury Baptist Association, Thomas Jefferson wrote "... I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church & State."
Unfortunately while our government was designed to safeguard itself from scaling this 'wall of separation', our politicians individually not only regularly and blatantly climb over the wall, but are making increasingly daring attempts to drag the rest of us over as well.
Our forefathers, with amazing clarity and will, saw the inherent dangers of Theocracy. Many of our current politicians ignore those same dangers by using religious materials, speech and symbolism in their campaigns and while in office.