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Dept.
of Religion
Columbia University
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"Congress
shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof; ..."
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First Amendment, U.S. Constitution
"Any
society adopting such a system [First Amendment] would be courting anarchy [and]
that danger increases in direct proportion [both] to the society's
diversity of religious beliefs and its determination to coerce
or suppress none of them."
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Justice Scalia, Majority Decision,
_Employment Division v. Alfred L. Smith et al._
Supreme Court Opinions No. 88-1213.
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