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Government

Oct. 10, 2006

Don't Use First Amendment to Erase Divisions

FORUM COLUMN - By Richard W. Garnett - Visit the local bookstore, turn on talk radio, or click on a favorite blog, and two claims are everywhere: America is divided, and religion is divisive.


Forum Column

By Richard W. Garnett

     
      Visit the local bookstore, turn on talk radio, or click on a favorite blog, and two claims are everywhere: America is divided, and religion is divisive. Every day, the news seems to confirm Justice David H. Souter's claim, in one of the Supreme Court's recent Ten Commandments cases, that "the divisiveness of religion in current public life is ines...

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