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Jefferson
I believe Jefferson's comment, in context, was to state that it is inappropriate for the state to fund a single religion. (We're talking money exclusively to a single belief, creating an unfair advantage.) Beyond that he supported integration of church and state, as implied by others. The current separation idea came from the US Supreme Court (in the early 1960s I believe, else late 1950s). It was a personal agenda by some justices.
And as someone else stated, our country was founded by men who were overwhelmingly (but not universally, at less than a handful of desenters) Christian.
Yes, its a basketball board. However, we are effectively at war and that is an extenuating circumstance. As long as most threads stay on basketball, and we don't mix the politics into basketball discussions, it doesn't seem too inappropriate. Brad, if it make sense, you could always add the note "Politics" to the subject of such threads. Then we can read what we want....
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