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Article: House leader Tom DeLay attacks church-state separation.(In The Capital)(Brief Article)
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- Church & State
- Article date:
- April 1, 2005
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A top official of the U.S. House of Representatives claimed in early March that the First Amendment does not call for the separation of church and state.
The day before the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in cases involving public display of the Ten Commandments, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) said he hoped the high court would finally recognize that church-state separation is not called for within the Constitution.
"I hope the Supreme Court will finally read the Constitution and see there's no such thing, or no mention, of separation of church and state in ...