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To: FredFlash
Black wrote the dissent when he used the church state separation wording.

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=28567

"Justice Black was avidly anti-Catholic – views "learned in the Ku Klux Klan" and which, no doubt, "influenced his 1947 ruling that the First Amendment created a 'high and impregnable' wall between religion and government," said the Times."
46 posted on 01/10/2006 9:14:25 AM PST by YOUGOTIT
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To: YOUGOTIT
Black wrote the dissent when he used the church state separation wording.
Justice Black was avidly anti-Catholic – views...which, no doubt, "influenced his 1947 ruling that the First Amendment created a 'high and impregnable' wall between religion and government,"

This is nonsense. Black wrote the majority opinion in Everson, and there was nothing anti-Catholic about it. You may want to read the actual decision. The WND article is garbage.

50 posted on 01/10/2006 11:01:58 AM PST by Sandy
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