re: They started with the cross, and they are now after George Washington.

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Wrong. "Separation of church and state", ironically, was a phrase coined by the previous generation of marxists in the mid 1900's. The statue issue has been around since the 1800's. I'm sure you will ignorantly say that separation is in the Constitution, but it's not and is nothing related to what founding fathers meant when they wrote the 1st amendment.

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I'm talking about the recent removal of the NOLA statues. Not sure what you're rambling about but whatever...


PS - The phrase "separation between church & state" is generally traced to a January 1, 1802 letter by Thomas Jefferson, addressed to the Danbury Baptist Association in Connecticut, and published in a Massachusetts newspaper. Jefferson wrote,

“ "I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church & State."[1]