To: Servant of the 9
"There is simply no historical foundation for the proposition that the framers intended to build a wall of separation...
... the "wall of separation between church and State" is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned." -- Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, William Rehnquist
To: Rightwing Conspiratr1
Funny, William Rehnquist telling us that Jefferson didn't actually mean what Jefferson said he meant.
18 posted on
11/02/2005 7:24:29 AM PST by
highball
("I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." -- Thomas Jefferson)
To: Rightwing Conspiratr1
"There is simply no historical foundation for the proposition that the framers intended to build a wall of separation...
... the "wall of separation between church and State" is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned."
-- Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, William Rehnquist I have no objection to teaching religion in public schools, I just object to teaching it as science.
So9
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