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To: Fedora
So, you're arguing that only religions which were expressly tolerated by the Founders should be tolerated in America today?
183 posted on 03/31/2004 11:33:37 AM PST by CobaltBlue
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To: CobaltBlue
So, you're arguing that only religions which were expressly tolerated by the Founders should be tolerated in America today?

No. I'm arguing that the Founders' principles of religious tolerance were originally conceived with reference to a Judeo-Christian paradigm of "religion", and any extrapolation of those principles to religions other than those expressly tolerated during the Founders' time should be consistent with the paradigm originally intended by the Founders. In other words, for instance, it would be consistent with the intent of the Founders to grant Muslims the same freedom from federal coercion granted to Jews and Christians; it would not be consistent for the federal government to coerce state/local or private Judeo-Christian educational institutions to abide by Muslim rules.

197 posted on 03/31/2004 12:56:00 PM PST by Fedora
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