[Mb-civic] Our Religious Culture - Washington Post

[William Swiggard]

Our Religious Culture

By William Raspberry

Monday, July 11, 2005; Page A15

The trouble with the Kentucky display of the Ten Commandments, said the 
Supreme Court, while approving a similar display in Texas, is that the 
it was motivated by a "predominantly religious purpose."

The trouble with the court's confusing -- some say absurd -- rulings, 
says Kevin "Seamus" Hasson of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, is 
that they proceed from an impossible premise.

<>"The 'predominantly religious' test suggests that anything not 
predominantly secular must be religious. It in fact has strong anti 
-religious overtones."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/10/AR2005071000998.html 

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