From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!G:ARPAVAX:CAD:teklabs!tekmdp!azure!toddv
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: We're coming comrade!
Article-I.D.: azure.986
Posted: Tue Jun 22 12:35:00 1982
Received: Mon Jun 28 01:33:40 1982

I happened across this and found it unnerving:
     
     "In a survey conducted recently, students at a nationally 
     known liberal arts college were asked to identify the following
     two statements:

     1.  `The church shall be seperate from the State, and the school
         shall be seperate from the church.'
 
     2.  `[The government] shall make no law respecting an Establishment
         of religion, or [its] free exercise...'

     Of the students surveyed, 68% wrongly identified the first statement
     as an excerpt form the United States Constitution, and 86% agreed
     with it.  It is actually from the 4th Article of the Soviet Constitution.

     Only 43% were able to identify correctly the second statement as an
     excerpt from the 1st Amendment of the United States Constitution.

     Just a reflection of common misconceptions regarding the `seperation
     of church and state.'"

Make of it what you will, but if you feel like flaming just mail it to me.

                                  Todd Vierheller
                                  teklabs!tekmdp!azure!toddv