An explanation of our separation of Church and State, or lack thereof “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” This is the text of the First Amendment known as the Establishment Clause, which is often referred to with the term “the Separation of Church and State.” The reason I bring this up is because I deeply question if this university, Christopher Newport, a state funded school, upholds this separation, and I’m not alone. This school, from the mandatory meetings where a belief in a Christian interpretation of God is told to be the best, to the building of what’s practically a cathedral on campus, to details revealed in an interview with an anonymous teacher, rides the line unbelievably closely, often leaving people feeling like it has been crossed many times over. In the early 1970’s, the Supreme Court of the United States heard a case, Lemon v. Kurtzman, where R. I. was trying to pass a bill which would have funded […]
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