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To: TimF who wrote (99373)	2/8/2005 5:51:59 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793742

Where does the law define religion? Ah, see, you shot your argument in the foot before it even got out of the gate. The answer to your question is that the law doesn't define religion, so we have to ask judges to do that. The law is what judges say it is. That's their job, to supply the definitions (part of their job, they have other duties). I am not arguing that judges are infallible, or that judicial interpretations are written in stone. Just that twfowler isn't the one doing the defining, and neither is CobaltBlue. The SCOTUS does that, and they've been doing it for a long, long time. The meaning of the First Amendment isn't a tabula rasa that you can write on for the first time. You're stuck with all the baggage. Centuries of baggage.