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Constitutional Law

Apr. 27, 2001

Open Minds

The dawn of the 21st century should not be a time in which we regress so far back in time as to re-establish long-discredited practices of government-sponsored religion.

        By Edward Tabash
        
        In his April 17 article, Houston lawyer Peter J. Riga laments that we secularists have taken over the law of the land ("Pondering an Amoral Foundation"). The tone of his article seems to imply that our society should return to medieval times when religious law was synonymous with civil law ...

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