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The Legal Fight Over God’s Secular Title

Dahlia Lithwick
Posted: November 19, 2009.
Published: November 19. 2009.

Print: Newsweek

David Hamilton, Barack Obama’s first judicial nominee, has seen his confirmation stalled until last week in the U.S. Senate, in part because his opponents claim he’s a judicial activist for an opinion he wrote about God’s proper secular title. In a 2005 case, Hinrichs v. Bosma, Hamilton determined that those who pray in the Indiana House of Representatives “should refrain from using Christ’s name or title or any other denominational appeal,” and that such prayer must hereinafter be “nonsectarian.”

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How about no prayer in Government facilitites as in “seperation of curch and State?” As Hitchins said in a debate, “I don’t care if you have religion as long as you keep it in your home and don’t bring it in our schools or governement” please excuse if that’s not an exact quote but it’s close.

posted on November 26, 2009
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