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Like it or not, religious beliefs will guide many people's values and ethics. Separation of church and state does not and should not mean that people can't take their religious views under consideration when voting on moral and ethical issues.
The debate about what those religious beliefs are should be relegated, primarily, to the individual religious institutions, but the nature of the beast is that some debates will almost certainly fall into the public realm.
That is not the same, however, as government sponsored religion, which is what the First Amendment is concerned with.

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