How come advocating the most extreme separation of church and state earns approving nods from the media while advocating even a minimal separation of economy and state draws accusations of extremism?

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But what is particularly disturbing about Inspire is its carefully manipulated arguments distinguishing Islam from all other religions--and thus its immunity from the separation of church and state, a principle that stands at the very foundation of Western democracy.

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John Locke set out to release the individual from the tyranny of religious authorities by enunciating the doctrine of the separation of church and state.

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Mr. Stern buried the warehouse part of the project into a contoured landscape so that he could create two entrances a kind of church and state separation for the museum and archive facing north, across the street from SMU's Greek Row, and for the George W. Bush Institute, a public-policy think tank, with a more formal circular driveway on a lower level facing west.

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