Dear Editor: <\/p>\n
Re LETTER: Ill take separation of church and state, by Eileen D. Minogue, July 20, 2017: I recently read an article by Roman Catholic Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, which I found most enlightening, including the following paragraphs: <\/p>\n
The First Amendment, which places freedom of religion as number one, protects the churches from intrusion by the government, not the government from religion. <\/p>\n
[Alexis de] Tocqueville asked himself how a country so vast, so diverse, so open to everybody, so bold, under a constitution so daring and unprecedented could ever survive. His answer? Because the American people are religious! <\/p>\n
Id like to hope our country has not strayed so far that its people no longer profess what early Americans professed in their Pledge of Allegiance one nation, under God. <\/p>\n
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Those who object have the freedom to eliminate what they feel objectionable, but not impose their views on the majority. <\/p>\n
Joan Saehloff <\/p>\n
Port Ewen, N.Y. <\/p>\n
Editors note: The Pledge of Allegiance was adopted by Congress in 1942. The words under God were added to the pledge in 1954. <\/p>\n
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