In India and Turkey, leaders build monuments to exclusionary democracy

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Concerned by Europe’s long and bloody history of religious persecution and conflict, the Founding Fathers rightly ensured that America would take a different course. As later codified in the First Amendment, Thomas Jefferson explained that American democracy and justice required “building a wall of separation between Church and State.”

Today, in two different nations, we’re seeing why Jefferson had it right.

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