Mayor Eric Adams said Sunday that religion and government should not “interfere” with one another, but pointedly declined to say that they should be “separate.”
The comments came during an appearance Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union with Jake Tapper & Dana Bash,” after a week of controversy following the mayor’s remarks at a Feb. 28 interfaith breakfast. At the breakfast, the mayor argued that his faith cannot be separated from his governing, positing “don’t tell me about no separation of church and state.”
Adams proclaimed that God himself had chosen to make him New York’s mayor, and subsequently declared himself a “servant of God.” The mayor also raised eyebrows when he stated that “when we took prayers out of schools, guns came into schools.”
