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    "title": "Islam and the First Amendment",
    "author": "pmjones",
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    "created": "2011-03-26 19:02:38 UTC",
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    "html": "<blockquote>\n<p>... Thomas Jefferson wrote that the Virginia statute protecting religious freedom, which he drafted, deliberately covered \u00e2\u0080\u009cthe Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mahometan, the Hindoo, and Infidel of every denomination,\u00e2\u0080\u009d and that a proposal to mention Christ in the bill \u00e2\u0080\u009cwas rejected by a great majority, in proof that they meant to comprehend\u00e2\u0080\u009d all religions.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Which is as it should be.  Read the whole thing. Via <em><a href=\"http://volokh.com/2011/03/25/islam-and-the-first-amendment/\">The Volokh Conspiracy \u00c2\u00bb Islam and the First Amendment</a></em>.</p>\n"
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