> You have the quote from Tomas Jefferson about the separation of church and
> state when addressing the Danbury Baptists about the rumor of the government
> making a State Religion:
>
> "Believing that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his
> God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that
> the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I
> contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people
> which declared that their Legislature should "make no law respecting an
> establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus
> building a wall of separation between Church and State." --Thomas Jefferson
> to Danbury Baptists, 1802.
>
> It is interesting that you stop the quote just when then President Jefferson
> adds another line stating that the wall mentioned "is a one way wall"
> allowing the government to be "influenced by the church" but not allowing
> the "church to be influenced by the government". Why did you not include
> this in the quote? I have an original copy of this speech, it is clearly
> written.

The "original copy" you have of this "speech" is a fraud.  The sentence that
follows the quote I provide is:

"Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of
the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress
of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights,
convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties."

This was a letter, a written "address," to the Danbury Baptists.  What you
have is the invention of someone else that added those sentences to the
original.  I suggest that you look up this letter in a reliable source, such
as the Library of America collection of Jefferson's writings, and see for
yourself.

> I must say you are right. Upon further inspection I see that the letter is a
> fraud.  As were the Danbury Baptists.  I was given misinformation. Thanks for
> bringing that to my attention.

Jefferson's original letter was not a fraud, of course.  And the Danbury
Baptist Letter was not a fraud.  You can see a complete copy of both of them
online at the following website:

Letter from Danbury Baptist Association and Jefferson's Reply

http://w3.trib.com/FACT/1st.jeffers.2.html

As you will see if you examine the full letter, the words suggesting the
church should influence the government are nowhere to be found in
Jefferson's original letter.

What often happens is, someone quotes from a letter by Jefferson and then
ADDS their interpretation.  But the interpretation is not Jefferson's.  It
is the person making the addition.  But it often gets confused with the
original quote from Jefferson and passed on as the words of Jefferson.