The 1st one is a really tough question. technically it is using us tax dollars to build a religious institution. But i believe those institutions come part in parcel with rebuilding efforts for the entire region. Its really a matter of whether allocating that FEMA funding is considered passing a "law" respecting an establishment of religion. It is in the budget which is passed by congress so i would say yes. However i believe its perfectly all right for the reason i stated before and only if theyre rebuilding all religious institutions in the area. They cant just rebuild the catholic churches and not rebuild a mosque for instance.

My personal opinion is that is ridiculously expensive and we shouldnt fund it. But constitutional? Probably. Its not really a direct endorsement of religion which was really the intent of the 1st amendment protections.

The second one is perfectly fine. Religious institutions are not allowed to publicly preach on behalf of candidates and directly endorse them. However after someone is already in office they still represent those constituents in the churches. So of course theyre able to make policy requests to their representatives.

It's insane how the Left has taken a "LETTER" written by Jefferson, and making everyone believe that this "LETTER" has anything to do with the Constitution!

Who cares what any man wrote in any letter. What matters is the final wording in the Constitution!

There are no words mentioning separation of church and state in the Constitution.

I will only address what the Constitution actually says... "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment. of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."

A community's freedom to display or not display a nativity scene is NOT ESTABLISHING RELIGION, but is actually exercising their Constitutional freedoms!

The people who live in every community should always have the freedom to vote on issues such as displaying a simple nativity scene celebrating our Nation's Christian heritage.

France has separated church and state since 1905 look at all the great stuff that happened since !!!