Church and State

The idea of separation of church and state had been a controversey over the last 100 years.  Only recently has it been believed that church and state have been completley seperated.  This is true for the matter of religion having a direct impact on political matters, but it is not true in other senses.

If we look back, many laws (especially conservative laws), have been put in place based on religious morals.  Back when the laws were made, the church still had a very big role in politics.  This is fine for the time, but to suit our current multi-cultural environment we require laws free of religious moral.  The fact that the morals are probably all of catholic origins, makes it unjust and unacceptable to pin those morals on others of different religions who may disagree with said morals or have different ones.

I find this ironic that our country and many others still have laws in place that do not reflect a churchless state.  In countries we are currently occupying, such as Iraq and Afghanistan, we prosecute the people for having a certain religious affiliation with an organized government.  I find this very hippocritical that we can comfortably tell other nations what is 'right and wrong', just because of what we believe.  Our morals that we were raised with and that, unfortunatley, are laws, may seem ok to us but completley disgusting to people from different religious backgrounds.