No one should celebrate the assassination of Charlie Kirk; it’s a tragedy for his family and supporters and a violent blow to the health of our republic.

On the other hand, would you want to live in Kirk’s version of America?

Kirk often distanced himself from Christian nationalism, but he was sympathetic to its goals, which include Christian dominance in American politics and culture.

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To Kirk, the separation of church and state was a “fiction.” He delighted in pointing out to callow college students that the term doesn’t actually appear in the Constitution.

But the separation principle is implicit and explicit in our founding document. The Founders knew a lot about a state church, and they understood that mixing the two does not serve either the state or the church ve

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