The Protection Faith

The government should never exercise control over any religious tradition, except in the prevention of harm to citizens outside of that tradition. Likewise, no religion should hold sway over the government that preserves the rights of all the people it serves. Regardless of how it is spent, government monies distributed to any religious organization cannot be prevented from promoting that religion or their proselytizing to the people it aids. A religions order cannot help being influenced by a government that finances them or their endeavors. Even the practice of tax exemptions for religious organizations should be scrutinized. Tax exemptions are always just another form of welfare.
For the protection of the faith shared by an abundance of US citizens, James Madison, Father of Our Constitution, Author of the Bill of Rights, wrote, "Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other sects? " ~Memorial and Remonstrance~
~Ned~