What a breath of fresh air!  Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia argued during a speech at Colorado Christian University  that the separation of church and state doesn’t mean “the government cannot favor religion over non-religion.”  Defending his strict adherence to the plain text of the Constitution,  Scalia knocked secular qualms over the role of religion in the public sphere as “utterly absurd,” arguing that the Constitution is only obligated to protect freedom of religion – not freedom from it.

 Scalia went on to say, we do Him (God) honor in our pledge of allegiance, in all our public ceremonies.  There is noting wrong with that.  It is in the best of American traditions, and don’t let anybody tell you otherwise.  I think we have to fight that tendency of the secularists to impose it on all of us through the Constitution.  Earlier this year, Scalia joined the Supreme Court’s majority opinion in Town of Greece v. Galloway, which held that the New York town could continue opening legislative sessions with sectarian prayers.  Scalia has since used the case to press for the approval of public prayers in schools, legislatures, and courtrooms.  Noting that “the First Amendment explicitly favors religion.”

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