I dont get what this smart attorney is saying.  I wish someone can enlighten me.  The brilliant founding fathers of the US established separation of Church and State.  The did not mean separation of G-d and state.  They could not mean that as they were deeply religious individuals.  What they meant is that Church does not equal G-d.  Likewise, the Rabbinate does not equal G-d and the functions of the Rabbinate must be absorbed within the State framework and the state framework must incorporate the Torah legal principles as it's constitution.  From the days of the Temple, modesty expressed as men and women seperation at sanctified places, has been a fundamental value to living a G-dly life as outlined by our fundamental constitution called the Torah.  So separation of Rabbinate and State would still require the State to support separation of the sexes at the Western Wall Kotel.