Separation of Church and State Issue

A board designed to give out money for scientific funding in a specific area such as stem cell research has an ethics board, upon which are two Catholic priests.  Clearly, reserving spots on the board for religious members is a violation of the Constitution, but what if they're not specifically reserved, and rather just appointed as "valued members" or something - is there a church V state issue?  What if the ethics committee has final say over who/what gets funding, and what types of groups are allowed?

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There is no conflict as the seperation of church and state applies to the state not creating a state sanctioned religion ie the Church of England.
You've been brainwashed by marxist liberals to think the seperation clause bans any interaction between church and state.

>>3
>marxist liberals
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heere we go again...

>>4
Troll'd I guess.
Everybody knows you should not ask to some fucker in a kaftan what to do, who thinks that you get "knowledge" from some old text.

Everyone!  Attention!  Listen to this man:

>>3

He summarized the issue quite well.

>>6
Agreed.

>>5
oh only if I could post pope.jpg

>>8
Yeah! That'd be really great if you could do that!!
That would be totally AWESOME COOL!!!!

Having Priests of any faith on a government sanctioned board is not against the 'Separation of Church and State'. The Separation is in ruling and the overall run of thems, so that the faiths do not direct who the taxes and policies.

However this does not invalidate them as useful sources of information and forbid them from interacting with the government at all. Especially on such boards as 'Ethics Commitees'. Region has something that Athiests do not have, a written and bound set of standards and morals (Not saying that athiests do not, but they're not universal, unlike in a religion).

Therefore they are helpful in keeping a 'positive' view on it all. Plus, it is never a bad thing to have multiple view points, and as everyone knows, followers of religion have quite interesting views on most topics.