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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For Catholics, they have short historical memories.  This is part of the problem with having little geographical diversity on the Court (heavy on mid-Atlantic Catholics).  I grew up in the South and West, where there are a lot of Christians (including Evangelicals and Mormons) who think that Catholics are Papist idolators going straight to hell, and they were praying for our conversion.  Catholics were some of the early proponents of separation of church and state in the U.S., because they were a minority and disfavored religion for so long.

Justice Brennan, a devout Catholic, realized that separate of church and state is necessary for people to be able to practice freely.  Combining church and state is good for neither the church nor the state.  (As the Inquisition and the Renaissance teach us - again, short historical memories.)

I feel bad for the [b]Jewish and Muslim kids[/b] in place like the South and Midwest, who are going to have to hold hands and mouth the Our Father if they want any playing time.

Also, funny how when it comes to my womb, it's all about local governmental control, but when it comes to asking a football coach not to organize a prayer circle with his teenage players, suddenly the local authorities don't know what they are doing.    [/quote]

And Hindu kids, and Sikh kids, and Jain kids, and aethist kids...[/quote]

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