By Regis Nicoll, Crisis Magazine - In the "Separation of Church and State," has the state taken over the role of the Church in the wider culture?... The raft of executive orders aimed at scaling back government support for non-defense programs like welfare, health care, and foreign aid has led to everything from emotional stress to physical suffering and mortality for program dependents, as well as everything from criticism to contempt from those who consider those services the moral duty of government.