Uncle Walter opposes all religions, except the one he passionately believes in:  Liberalism.

It calls for houses of worship to stop endorsing political
candidates and for states' tax dollars not to go to any charity that
discriminates in its hiring or requires people hold a certain faith to
receive services

I wonder dose that include all those black churches dems always goto to start preaching from at the start of elections and that are used by the left to get out the black vote for them?

Also it goes without saying that Islam will be exempt from this effort

Well you over-blown narcisstic old self-important  leftist wind-bag, what a hypocrite...it was always alright when the dim-wit dem's were holding hands in all the black churhes...ala Clintoons and Gore as recent examples...why yest thats just A-Okay...you phony leftist hypocrite...

You cannot go away fast enough for me...you are the perfect epitome of the enemy within, always have been.

Pot calling kettle....

Brontosaurs are not in favor of faster-breeding tree-climbing mammals invading their territories, but... Do we really care what dinosaurs think?

Somebody come get grampa...

  The intent of the seperation of church and state was not to protect the government from churches but to protect churches from governtment intrusion. 

   Conservitive churches never became a problem until the democrats lost an automatic lock on congress. 

  Belonging to a church also makes it difficult for a liberal press to tell you what is right and moral.

"There’s a new national campaign called “First Amendment First” that is looking to eliminate the influence that religion and religious groups have in setting policy and impacting elections. On Friday, former CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite endorsed their views."
Walter then commanded that he be rightly restored to his throne of influence over setting policy and impacting elections once the false idols had been cast down.

Can I say " Fuck you Walter"?

This old poot needs to get over himself.  It's been a long time since we cared what he thinks.  This anti-religion stuff only concerns liberals when it is white evangelicals.  The blacks bring candidates into their pulpits, and NPR is ridiculously left-wing. 

Somebody tell this man to take his motheaten old brain and go away!

All we have to do is look back at our history to see what is going on here.

It is beyond a shadow of doubt that what Cronkite and crew are pushing for is something new - not something the people who wrote the Constitution practiced.  It is beyond doubt that religion (Christianity) had much more influence on our government in the past, including at the nation's founding, than it does today.

And if we just look at the words this group quoted, and look at the past, we can see how they are trying to flip the meaning on its ear:

The quote they used means the government shall not establish a national religion and laws to prevent the freedom of religious expression and thought - you know - like what happened in Europe which drove boat loads of people to flee to the American colonies in the first place...

The focus in the words is on a top-down process whereby the government shall not interfere in the free exercise of religion.

What Cronkite and crew want to do is say the words actually means to attack religious interference from the grassroots-up.

Which is so plainly not what the government leaders who wrote the Constitution practiced themselves.  It is clear from history, the vast majority of them would be baffled by what these groups are trying to accomplish.

What they are trying to do is something the Civil Rights Movement did. 

They are trying to say that the Constitution inherently called for an extension of democracy that the contemporary society at the time of the founding could not accomplish due to opposition:  meaning - that "all men are created equal" is what the Constitution meant as part of its core democratic founding, and this core meant all men (and women) regardless of race, but because of the power of the politicians from slave-holding states (and a few supporters up north), the inherent meaning of the Constitution could not be put into effect until  a long time later when the nation had changed more and the Civil Rights Movement could rise up and put an end to segragation and other forms of discrimination that were actually counter to the meaning of the democracy our Constitution spells out.

That is what Cronkite's crew wants to do with religion.  They say the Constitution actually called for the government to interfere in religion to free the govenrment (and increasingly the public sphere) of all influence by religion - not just the founding of an official state religion.

They believe American society will be more democratic the closer it gets to secularization just as the leaders of the Civil Rights Movement were convinced that you could not label American society "democratic" as long as segragation and institutionalized discrimination were practiced.

I agree one of these campaigns was dead-on correct - and the other is full of poo....and obviously so....