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[elder999]

The church cannot meddle in the state's business, but the state can meddle in the church's business. Thus this thread and discussion.

This has always been the case-there are numerous examples from history.The forced Mormon abolition of polygamy for Utah statehood comes to mind, but there are lots of others.....

 

[oftheherd1]

This has always been the case-there are numerous examples from history.The forced Mormon abolition of polygamy for Utah statehood comes to mind, but there are lots of others.....

Indeed there have been instances, both ways. But your example is more a compromise of a religious belief to gain statehood in the USA. The Federal Government had no real desire to require that until the Utah Territory requested statehood.

The Catholic Church often meddled in state affairs, as late as the 1920s, and in some places still may. Henry VIII certainly meddled in church affairs when he nullified the Catholic Church's control over state affairs in his country, and became the head of his country's church.

But as we use the phrase "separation of church and state," supposedly a Jefferson priciple, the closest the constitution comes to it is telling the Federal Government to refrain from a state religion. The individual States were not so constrained, and in fact, some indeed had State religions.