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发帖数: 7349 | 1 “THE wall between state and church”, Justice Hugo Black wrote in Everson v
Board of Education, a case from 1947, “must be kept high and impregnable”
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Justice Black was quoting a line Thomas Jefferson used in 1802 to reassure a
group of Baptists that, as president, he would protect the religious
liberty of minority sects. The well-pedigreed wall metaphor (Jefferson had
borrowed it from Roger Williams, a 17th-century Puritan theologian) is
centuries old, but it is becoming less and less apt as a description of the
unique relationship between America’s religions and its state institutions.
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