"[T]he Establishment clause exists as much if *not actually more* to protect churches than it does to protect the state. The state is a lumbering patchwork beast that subsumes what it touches much more readily than the other way around. There’s a Church of England, but no one would argue the UK offers a primarily God-based education in the public schools.The thing about putting faith to a vote is that the odds are overwhelmingly in favor of something you not only don’t believe in, but find personally anathema being voted in."
Monday, June 08, 2015
QotD: You're Locked In Here With Me Edition
From a RTWT post by LabRat: