Abstract
FREEDOM of religious belief and practice has been accepted as so integral a part of the American political and social heritage that to challenge its loyalty status appears heretical. Are we not the proud spiritual descendants of Pilgrims and Huguenots? A Congress dominated by an overwhelming orthodox Protestant majority pays its respects on appropriate occasions to papal authority, Jewish law, Quaker individualism, and Mormon revelation. We generally believe with Justice Douglas that the legacy of Madison and Jefferson as expressed in their Virginia Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom has become part of the American ideal; that, as he summarizes it:
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