【正文】 uld influence generation ago, a presidential candidate had to prove his independence of undue religious influence in public life, and he had to do so partly at the insistence of evangelical Kennedy said at that time: “I believe in an America where there is no religious bloc voting of any kind.” Only twenty years later, another candidate was appealing to a[n] evangelical meeting as a religious Reagan said to 15 thousand evangelicals at the Roundtable in Dallas: “ I know that you can’t endorse want you to know I endorse you and what you are doing.”To many Americans, that pledge was a sign and a symbol of a dangerous breakdown in the separation of church and this principle, as vital as it is, is not a simplistic and rigid of church and state cannot mean an absolute separation between moral principles and political challenge today is to recall the origin of the principle, to define its purpose, and refine its application to the politics of the founders of our nation had long and bitter experience with the state, as both the agent and the adversary of particular religious colonial Maryland, Catholics paid a double land tax, and in Pennsylvania they had to list their names on a public rollan ominous precursor of the first Nazi laws against the Jews in turn faced discrimination in all of the thirteen original exiled Roger Williams and his congregation for contending that civil government had no right to enforce the Ten harassed Baptist teachers, and also established a religious test for public service, writing into the law that no “popish followers” could hold any during the Revolution, Catholics, Jews, and NonConformists all rallied to the cause and fought valiantly for the American monwealthfor John Winthrop’s “city upon a hill.” Afterwards, when the Constitution was ratified and then amended, the framers gave freedom for all religion, and from any established religion, the very first place in the Bill of the framers themselves professed very different faiths: Washington was an Episcopalian, Jefferson a deist, and Adams a although he had earlier opposed toleration, John Adams later contributed to the building of Catholic churches, and so did George Jefferson said his proudest achievement was not the presidency, or the writing the Declaration of Independence, but drafting the Virginia Statute of Religious stated the vision of the first Americans and the First Amendment very clearly: “The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time.”The separation of church and state can sometimes be frustrating for women and men of religious may be tempted to misuse government in order to impose a value which they cannot persuade others to once we succumb to that temptation, we step onto a slippery slope where everyone’s freedom is at who favor censorship should recall that one of the first books ever burned was the first English translation of the President Eisenhower warned in 1953, “Don’t join the book burners...the right to say ideas, the right to record them, and the right to have them accessible to others is unquestionedor this isn’t America.” And if that right is denied, at some future day the torch can be turned against any other book or any other us never forget: Today’s Moral Majority could bee tomorrow’s persecuted danger is as great now as when the founders of the nation first saw 1789, their fear was of factional strife among dozens of there are hundredsand perhaps even thousands of faithsand millions of Americans who are outside any obviously does not and cannot mean that all of them are right。m a member in good standing.[Falwell: Somewhat] Somewhat, he is, of course, a nonpolitical speech which is probably best under the I am not a candidate for President, it would certainly be inappropriate to ask for your support in this election and probably inaccurate to thank you for it in the last have e here to discuss my beliefs about faith and country, tolerance and truth in know we begin with certain disagreements。第一篇：美國(guó)經(jīng)典英文演講100篇Truth_and_Tolerance_in_America美國(guó)經(jīng)典英文演講100篇: “Truth and Tolerance in America”Edward Faith, Truth and Tolerance in , a number of people in Washington were surprised that I was invited to speak hereand even more surprised when I accepted the seem to think that it’s easier for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle than for a Kennedy to e to the campus of Liberty Baptist honor of our meeting, I have asked , as your Chancellor, to permit all the students an extra hour next Saturday night before in return, I have promised to watch the Old Time Gospel Hour next Sunday realize that my visit may be a little as many of you have heard, recently sent me a membership in the Moral Majorityand I didn39。t even apply for I wonder if that means that I39。I strongly suspect that at the end of the evening some of our disagreements will I also hope that tonight and in the months and years ahead, we will always respect the right of others to differ, that we will never lose sight of our own fallibility, that we will view ourselves with a sense ofperspective and a sense of all, in the New Testament, even the Disciples had to be taught to look first to the beam in their own eyes, and only then to the mote in their neighbor’s am mindful of that am an American and a Catholic。but it does mean that there are areas where government cannot and should not decide what it is wrong to believe, to think, to read, and to Professor Larry Tribe, one of the nation’s leading constitutional scholars has written, “Law in a nontheocratic state cannot measure religious truth, nor can the state impose it.“ The real transgression occurs when religion wants government to tell citizens how to live uniquely personal parts of their failure of Prohibition proves the futility of such an attempt when a majority or even a substantial minority happens to questions may be inherently individual ones, or people may be sharply divided about whether th