That may well be part of it, but I think a bigger reason was the slow but steady erosion of male/female separation.
Mr. Morton, a computer consultant from South Africa, says he is trying to educate his neighbors about the existence of nonbelievers like himself and alert them to what he sees as the widespread erosion of the separation between church and state.
The erosion of political separation between lobbyist and candidate is steady and real, and, to stretch this analogy near its limits, this is a great time for politicians -- especially those in Albany -- to start heading for the campaign car wash.
Repealing the law would require approval by Congress, which could prove challenging given that Democrats, and even some Republicans, would resist what many view as an erosion of the separation between church and state.
He must now resist them if they demand any erosion of the separation of mosque and state.A more immediate preoccupation may be the economy, which is less parlous than it was but still requires careful nursing.
Its main argument was that the checks and balances in the constitution are designed for a four-year presidential term and that an erosion of the separation of powers under Mr Uribe would be aggravated by a third term.Such worries are all the greater because Mr Uribe's rule has not been free of abuses and scandals.
I too am frightened by the prospect of an erosion of the separation of church and state, but I am equally concerned about the policing of personal faith in public work settings.
Vouchers are a third rail in Democratic politics — they arouse fears not just about the draining of dollars from public schools but about erosion of the separation of church and state as well.
The Center for Inquiry, a secular nonprofit that also serves as home to the Richard Dawkins Foundation For Reason & Science, argued the Johnson Amendment provides necessary safeguards against the erosion of the separation of church and state. .
"I expect that a repeal [of the Johnson Amendment] would be greeted broadly in California with widespread concern about the erosion of institutional separation between church and state," Givens said.
President Obama was opportunistic, but hardly wholly to blame for the erosion in separation of powers.
