l'etat, c'est qui?

Thanks to Don Byrd at Blog from the Capitol and Carlos at Jesus Politics and Talk to Action for linking to my post on Tuesday's Scarborough-Lynn debate. Thanks also to those of you who commented here and elsewhere. I am getting ready to do an actual unit on church-state separation as a civil liberties issue for the first time and need all the food for thought I can get, especially considering that I have to present the issue in a non-biased fashion.

Any thoughts on what examples I should use?