GOP candidate Glen Urquhart (R-DE): "Do you know, where does this phrase 'separation of church and state' come from?" Urquhart asked at a campaign event last April. "It was not in Jefferson's letter to the Danbury Baptists. ... The exact phrase 'separation of Church and State' came out of Adolph Hitler’s mouth, that's where it comes from. So the next time your liberal friends talk about the separation of Church and State ask them why they're Nazis."
Jefferson's letter called it a "wall of separation between church and state," but it means the same thing. This along with the fact our system of government was set up long before Hitler clearly shows it was Jefferson and our founding fathers that led us to practice what the term we use today represents. So that connection is bullshit. We can however quite easily show the deep relationship, past and present, between the American right-wing and Nazis/white supremacists. First of course, the Bush family got rich underwriting the Nazi war machine. Then the GOP used the self described "Southern Strategy" to build their base with racists. And to this day the GOP and white supremacist organizations make common cause. They really shouldn't bring it up.
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