I came across this scripture today and?¢‚Ǩ‚Äùgiven my recent posts on the separation of church and state?¢‚Ǩ‚Äùthought it would be applicable here.
We do not believe it just to mingle religious influence with civil government, whereby one religious society is fostered and another proscribed in its spiritual privileges, and the individual rights of its members, as citizens, denied. (D&C 134:9)