Quote Originally Posted by maddafinga View Post
It was the early protestants in America who pushed the hardest for the separation of church and state.
The problem is this doesn't quite jive with the history. The early protestants in America were just as intolerant to different religions and variations of their specific religion, as the places they escaped, sometimes even more so.

By the time the constitution of the USA was drawn things had mellowed out a fair amount, and whoremongers and drunkards like Benjamin Franklin got to hold government positions as high as postmaster general