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Faith, Family and Life
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Two schoolgirls, a flag salute and the 1943 ruling that protected conscienceBarnette reversed the Court's 1940 flag-salute ruling in three years, and a patriot has every reason to defend it. Justice Jackson's reasons are the best. Employment Division v. Smith and the Scalia rule that still splits conservativesSmith held that neutral, generally applicable laws need no religious exemption. Conservative jurists still argue both sides, and both deserve a fair hearing. Sixteen words on religion in the First Amendment, read phrase by phraseTwo guarantees, not one, and nearly every word was fought over in 1789. A close reading of the religion clauses and the myth that they are at war.
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