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Richard Epstein: No crosses for dead troopers? The dictatorial impulse returns

By Alliance Alert

Richard Epstein writing at Ricochet: "The general laws that deal with the separation of church and state take Jefferson's metaphor and apply it with a ruthless insensitivity to all sorts of places where it does not belong. One would never say that the use of crosses in Arlington cemetery creates an establishment of religion because there are relatively few Jewish stars. There would be a legitimate beef in this case if Utah took it upon itself to allow only crosses and to prohibit all other religious insignias for Jewish or Moslem leaders . . . This decision in my mind falls abjectly short of the modicum of common sense that we have a right to respect from our judges."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on August 20, 2010 (boomark / email).