Delaware's Republican congressional candidate Glen Urquhart must be vying for most outrageous campaign slur against religious liberty principles this crazy season. He's now trying to explain a statement he made at an event earlier this year that the separation of church and state comes not from Thomas Jefferson and the protections of the First Amendment, but from….wait for it… Hitler.
"Do you know, where does this phrase 'separation of church and state' come from?" Urquhart asked at a campaign event last April. "It was not in Jefferson's letter to the Danbury Baptists. … The exact phrase 'separation of Church and State' came out of Adolph Hitler’s mouth, that's where it comes from. So the next time your liberal friends talk about the separation of Church and State ask them why they’re Nazis."
I guess Godwin's Law applies to political campaigns now, too, a sad and distasteful – not to mention completely false – insult to our first freedom. There are some areas of church-state law we can have legitimate disagreement over, but come on, not like this. Raw Story has the video.
