Tag: Separation of Church And State

As the ever-charming man campaigned for office, he looked into the teleprompter, smiled his avuncular smile, and read two polished phrases set in deliberate, nostalgic parallel: “old-time religion” and “old-time Constitution.” In doing so, Reagan cast a kind of charm—a syntactic spell that reinforced a pernicious myth: that the Constitution and the Bible belong to…