To clarify:

My post was not based entirely upon that BBC article, but rather on the many articles I have read from various sources.

The fact that they are dropping Thomas Jefferson from the list of "enlightenment thinkers" should be enough to set off alarms; they will now relegate him to the role of merely the third president; the one who doubled the size of the U.S. with the Louisiana Purchase. They want to remove all mention of his role in the founding of this country and especially in writing the Bill of Rights. Admittedly, you must dig back for months to find all of this, which I did.

Jefferson wrote that "Congress shall make no law respecting...an establishment of religion" (including the Christian religion); they are now attempting to reinterpret that as meaning that Congress shall not institutionalize one Christian sect above another.

The bare fact is that neither Washington nor Jefferson nor Madison nor Franklin were Christians; they were Deists.

As far as the "Separation of Church and State"; that is addressed in the New York times article to which I linked.