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To: KLP who wrote (13189)	10/20/2003 2:50:15 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793689

I did not mean to single out Bush although he's the one I'd most like to see disabused of it at this particular time. I'm wearing down my teeth gritting them so often... <g> I don't care if Presidents attend evangelical churches. I don't care about their religious beliefs. I only care when they address the country on national issues and thoughtlessly make statements that suggest that some of us are second class citizens. I understand the Christian heritage of this country. But there have been a lot of people through Ellis Island since then and not all of them were Christian or Judeo-Christian or even religous. We're part of this country, too. This was posted on another thread recently and I clipped and saved it. <<Professor Joseph Tussman wrote in The Supreme Court on Church and State (1962): It is, I hope, hardly necessary to add, as we try to understand and deal wisely with the problems of religious freedom, that the freedom and dignity of the nonbeliever—the agnostic or the atheist—is as precious and as much to be protected as that of the believer. Earlier, we would have called ourselves a ‘Christian nation.’ More recently the phrase is a ‘religious nation.’ Someday, we may come to think of ourselves as a spiritual nation, deeply involved in the quest for truth about the nature of the universe and man’s [and woman’s] place in it.>>