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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: geode00 who wrote (508594)	12/12/2003 4:46:00 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Read Replies (1) of 769667

For the most Jefferson favored a separation of church and state. Correspondence of Jefferson and Madison even talked of wishing Patrick Henry would drop dead when he led an effort to enact a plural religious establishment in the state of Virginia. A plural establishment would have used taxpayer funds to support several faiths, not unlike present practice in Germany, where taxpayers fund Lutheran and Catholic religious instruction within the public schools. Not quite favoring a "wall of separation," Jefferson opposed a Chair of Divinity at Virginia only out of fear it would be dominated by one sect, probably his own Episcopalians. He did not oppose having a variety of religions and places of worship on the campus, and if he personally contributed more to the Episcopalians, he also gave some money to Presbyterians and Baptists. Also, Jefferson did not oppose use of public buildings for religious worship, provided that all religions shared access, as became true of public schoolrooms after hours in the United States by Act of Congress (Sheldon, 1991, 109-11).

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