WILL BE HERE, along with the less politically correct religious days of Christmas and Hanukkah. Jefferson certainly wanted separation of church and state, but he also wanted the state to remain very, very small and occupy only a tiny corner of a large public square filled with private institutions and citizens virtually untouched by taxation and government regulation.
Liberals nowadays reason using a far different logic.
In their syllogism, church and state must be separate. The state must own or control everything. Therefore, the church must retreat to near nothingness. This is not the America Thomas Jefferson wanted. This is what he declared independence against.