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People who disavow the separation of church and state are against a central pillar of popular democracy, without which the democracy would become insitutionally unfair and therefore not a democracy. So these people are seditious at best, and, most of them, are actively treasonous,

At a republican rally they would’ve beaten and escorted someone challenging the speaker like Tommy out

El-Sayed is hitting at something so central to what’s happening today — that some religious sects, including apparently some members of the conservative Roberts Court majority — do not believe in separation of church and state.

That rejection of separation of church and state by some aspects of the institutional movement right, and a big part of its donor class, is a huge huge driver of what’s happening to the US today. And it is too rarely discussed. Good for El-Sayed for highlighting it.

And this is important for science because people like Russell Vought, people who are destroying American science today, are people who don’t think the Constitution protects everyone’s right to practice the faith they choose (or no faith at all). We can’t fix science without restoring that principle.