Speaker Johnson: ‘Separation of Church and State’ Is Misunderstood, Misrepresented, by Craig Bannister

The iconic phrase “separation of Church and State” doesn’t mean what most people think it does, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) explained Thursday at the Catholic National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C.

“It’s particularly fitting, I think, on this year, that we reflect on the essential role that faith plays, and has always played, in our national life,” Johnson said, noting that 2026 marks the 250^th anniversary of America’s founding. “It is from the very birth of our nation, that America has always been sustained by prayer,” Johnson said.

The expression “separation of Church and State” is “often repeated, but very rarely understood,” Johnson said, noting that the phrase is not in the Constitution, but in a personal letter Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Danbury Baptist Association. …

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