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You are here: Home / Politics / National / Brass Oldies: Part III

Brass Oldies: Part III

October 28, 2010 by Daniel

by Thomas Sowell

Politics is not the only place where some pretty brassy statements have been made and repeated so often that some people have accepted these brassy statements as being as good as gold.
       
One of the brassiest of the brass oldies in the law is the notion that the Constitution creates a “wall of separation” between church and state. This false notion has been so widely accepted that people who tell the truth get laughed at and mocked.
       
A recent New York Times piece said that it was “a flub of the first order” when Christine O’Donnell, Republican candidate for senator in Delaware, asked a law school audience “Where in the Constitution is the separation of church and state?” According to the New York Times, ?The question draw gasps and laughter” from this audience of professors and law students who are elites-in-waiting.

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Filed Under: National, Politics Tagged With: Conservative, Sowell

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