influencing political debate. If people want to claim the act of paying taxes grants your right to free speech, then are we proposing that those who do not pay taxes at all, because they do not make enough money, be barred from freely speaking? Shall we go further and insist you must own land to partake in political discourse? I thought we had gotten past that all. 'If people want to claim the act of paying taxes grants your right to free speech, then are we proposing that those who do not pay taxes at all, because they do not make enough money, be barred from freely speaking? Shall we go further and insist you must own land to partake in political discourse? I thought we had gotten past that all.' -- Sisu. How long is this vastly incorrect interpretation of the separation of Church and State clause going to be tolerated by everyone? The clause protects the Church from the State- not the other way around- yet everyone in the Church seems to cower when the words are mentioned. 1 Corinthians 3: 9 -- 11, 16 -- 17 9 For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building. 10 According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and another man is building upon it. Let each man take care how he builds upon it. 11 For no other foundation can any one lay than that which