Religion and Politics in France
Referring to the bill passed by the French Chamber of Deputies, designed to cut the tie between church and state in France, the St. Louis Globe-Democrat says: "A republic has no business to have any connection with any church. The framers of the United States Government wisely kept religion and politics separate." But, by some means, they are becoming very closely connected. When a religious-political association can have its peculiar documents printed and sent over the country at government expense, as in the case of the National Reform Bureau, there is certainly an illicit connection between religion and politics in the government.7 This fact is especially significant when the main purpose of the "bureau" is to establish a religious control in the government. Another straw which shows a marked departure from the principle of a separation between religion and politics, is the growing influence of the Roman Catholic Church with the government whenever the special interests of that church are concerned.