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Furthermore, his pronouncements regarding the “separation of church and state” were made in the context of a political campaign (for the presidency) in which he had been accused of being an “infidel” by certain religious leaders who questioned whether a person who did not attend church on a regular basis was qualified to be President.
Candidate Jefferson addressed the Baptists to reassure them that he would not interfere with their religious beliefs. He was running for President — not writing an exposition on the proper interpretation of the First Amendment.
As a candidate, he understood that he could best reach the Baptists by quoting one of their own. So he quoted the prominent Baptist preacher Roger Williams, who had written earlier of the “wall of separation between the garden of the church and the wilderness of the world” and that the church “must of necessity be walled in peculiarly unto Himself from the world” — the church must be protected from outside influences, including the state.
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