For the record, neither the Constitution nor its First Amendment mandated a separation of church and state, despite the recent media snarkfest aimed at Tea Party types, and specifically Delaware Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell. The US Constitution was ratified on June 21, 1788 and the First Amendment went into effect on December 15, 1791. Established churches, supported by the states, continued long after those events. Connecticut, for example, had an established church until it revised its constitution in 1818.

More snark is to be found in this exchange between Lawrence O’Donnell and Bill Maher (at 6:30 or so). And here’s a political audience laughing at same. (Recent Supreme Court decisions on the matter of separation of church and state show that the debate on this contentious issue is hardly over.)

Related: the ruckus over “party like it’s 1773.” HT: BOTW

Final point: the Washington Post ran an AP story that skewered O’Donnell, then the AP completely amended the incorrect original story without ever issuing a correction. Jeeesh! HT: Instapundit

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