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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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ELI5:Why do politicians use religious grounds for policy making when there is a separation of state and church in the U.S.A.?
gpt
Separation of Church and State means that the government cannot establish a State religion, and that the government cannot prevent a citizen from practicing their religion. Since religious people use their religion as a primary component in how they form their morality and ethics, and morality and ethics are how lawmakers make laws you cannot ever fully separate the two. What you can do is prevent religious law from directly influencing our secular law. Banning religious people from holding office or forbidding them from using their personal morals in their law making would be illegal and violate the constitution as our law makers are US citizens.