From: Adam 

Gary Wiltshire wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 05:32:02 -0500, Adam 
> wrote:
>
>> Given the role that Anglicanism played in the founding days of the US
>> etc.etc.etc.
>>
>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,1735732,00.html
>>
>> "The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, has stepped into the
>> controversy between religious fundamentalists and scientists by saying
>> that he does not believe that creationism - the Bible-based account of
>> the origins of the world - should be taught in schools.
>>
>> Giving his first, wide-ranging, interview at Lambeth Palace, the
>> archbishop was emphatic in his criticism of creationism being taught
>> in the classroom, as is happening in two city academies founded by the
>> evangelical Christian businessman Sir Peter Vardy and several other
>> schools.
>>
>> "I think creationism is ... a kind of category mistake, as if the
>> Bible were a theory like other theories ... if creationism is
>> presented as a stark alternative theory alongside other theories I
>> think there's just been a jarring of categories ... My worry is
>> creationism can end up reducing the doctrine of creation rather than
>> enhancing it," he said."
>>
>>
>> Adam
>
> WHAT role that Anglicanism played in our founding days?  The
> denominations here were largely FLEEING your established state church.
>
> --Gary Wiltshire

A number were till the British Government made the colonies official colonies.

For example the southern "royal" colonies (Virginia,Georgia,
Maryland, Carolinas etc) were predominantly Anglican.

The main fight in the north was between the Puritans, Anglicans & the
Quakers (e.g. Franklin) as William Penn had been a Quaker & then his
sons reverted to Anglicanism.

e.g. the whole Anglican Proprietary Party & it's opposition the
imaginatively named "Antiproprietary Party".

A big kickstart to the whole effort to try & bring the churches back
under Anglicanism was oddly enough the Salem witch trials which appeared to
show that the Puritan sects could not be trusted not to become nutty
& thus a threat to the general order & well being of the colonies.

As an example:

http://www.dinsdoc.com/greene-3-6.htm

In many ways the Anglican/Dissenter scrap is what helped to crete the US
& is what ensures things like your state-churhc split in the constitution.

Adam

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