Mark Skelding: Separating religion and politics?

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Mark Skelding, of St. Albans, a retired educator who most recently was a faculty member for Southern New Hampshire University’s Graduate Program in Education. He previously worked at Food Works/Two Rivers Center for Sustainability.
Separation of church and state is fundamental to democracy. But separation of church and state isn’t the same as separating our religion (which for Americans is primarily Christian) from our politics. Yet it seems