Religion is bad in liberal eyes.  To some, like Bill Maher, it's the source of most of the world's ills.  They do what they can to erect that wall of separation of church and state.  Let me back up.  Christianity is bad in liberal eyes.  You can make fun of Jesus, or any other religion, but don't draw Muhammad.  In fact, don't try messing with Islam period because then you are a bigot.  Christianity?  It's fair game.  Atheists and liberals are protesting the Texas State Board of Education proceedings (their wrong about Jefferson by the way).

How quickly liberals shunt their eyes from statists persecution of Christianity, unless it serves their purposes.  There are many examples of liberals hijacking religion, especially Christianity when it suits their needs.

Take Ted Turner.  Big Lib.  Regarding the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, he stated :

"God's telling us he doesn't want us to drill offshore..."

If watching a CNN journalist interview her boss as if it is news doesn't make you sick, then what Ted Turner said about the coal mining disasters in West Virginia and China should:

"Lord's tired of having the mountains of West Virginia, the tops knocked off them so they can get more coal".

Amazing.  Apparently, the Lord works in mysterious, liberal ways according to Ted Turner.  Is God a member of SEIU also?  Haven't been to a union meeting in awhile (or ever) so I can't tell you if that nugget was brought up or not.

Next on the list is the EPA.  It seems they are going to use churches and other faith-based organizations to push their environmental agenda.

How about when the left becomes supportive of churches that allow homosexuals to serve as clergy?

Finally, we have Queen Pelosi saying (or dictating?) that the Catholic church should help with the immigration debate:

"The cardinals, the archbishops, the bishops that come to me and say, 'We want you to pass immigration reform,' and I said, 'I want you to speak about it from the pulpit. I want you to instruct your' -- whatever the communication is,"

"The people, some (who) oppose immigration reform, are sitting in those pews, and you have to tell them that this is a manifestation of our living the gospels,"

To Pelosi, she says the church "has an important role to play".  Only when it serves thy purposes Nancy?  So much for separation of church and state, which brings me to my final points.

First, Jefferson was not an atheist no matter how hard liberal professors and judges try to cut the cookie.  The Danbury letter that the "law" is based on is found no where in the Constitution.  Nowhere.  Those that argue that Jefferson and founders did not want religion in the public sphere are ignorant of history and have never toured Washington DC's buildings or monuments.  On top of the Washington Monument?  In God We Trust.  Supreme Court chambers?  Religious scenes.  National Cathedral?  What about the history part?  WARNING: HISTORY LESSON FORTHCOMING so drink a cup of coffee and try to stay awake!

Liberals tend to forget the fact that prior to the American Revolution, the colonists still considered themselves English citizens under the authority of King George III.  Likewise, they shared a common history with England, even though they were born in America.  Knowing their history, they knew (because it was still law on the books in England) that since they were citizens of the crown, that in order to serve in government, they were supposed to be members of the Anglican Church (Church of England).  The Anglican requirement had been watered down over the years, but it was still part of their common history.  The colonists knew that religious strife found an English king without his head, and they also knew the history of Northern Ireland (yes, it was still a hotbed of religious contention back then also, not a modern invention as some would have you believe).  Again, the colonists knowing their history knew that America was founded on religious freedom, not freedom from religion.  Remember, the Huguenots of France?  If not, Google them, because that's another history lesson altogether.  When our Founders created the Bill of Rights, that line in the 1st Amendment that says "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion..." was an attempt to prevent the newly formed US government from having a religion test for office like King George III's government had done.  

Unfortunately, the Supreme Court when establishing "separation of church and state" neglected the history lesson above and failed to read the Constitution.  Instead, they used a letter from Thomas Jefferson to Danbury, CT Baptists that stated there should be a "wall of separation of church and state".  And here we are taught in school the Supreme Court interprets the Constitution.  This reminds me of the story of the Mammoth Cheese and Thomas Jefferson.

The Mammoth Cheese was actually a huge lobbying effort on behalf of a small church sect in Massachusetts who were worried about the government taxing their church.  Knowing that Jefferson loved the American farmer and domestic industry, they made a huge cheese - 13 feet wide, 4 feet in circumference and weighed in at over 1200 pounds - and hauled it to the White House to present it to Jefferson.  He greeted them in a formal manner and legend has it that Jefferson served that cheese for a long time afterward (must have stunk to high heaven).  The second part of religion stated in the 1st Amendment is "or prohibiting the free exercise of".  The sect in Massachusetts was worried about their church being taxed.  Again, look back at English history.  The churches outside of the Anglican church could have their lands seized (just ask the Catholics) and taxed.  At one point in England, it was illegal of anyone outside of the Anglican church to gather in groups larger than 5.  Freedom of assembly anyone?  In closing, I'll leave you with a quote by another supposed atheist champion of the left, James Madison :

"Do not separate text from historical background.  If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government."