A 21st Century Clarence Darrow?
http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=11867
[excerpt]
Chanan Tigay - JTA
Eric Rothschild: ?I think Jewish practice has thrived in this country
because we really do have such a good structure for protecting
religious freedom.? Courtesy of Eric Rothschild
He?s just won one of the biggest courtroom duels over evolution since
the seminal Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925, but Eric Rothschild hasn?t
had the time yet to relax.
Since a federal judge ruled late last month that a Pennsylvania school
board acted unconstitutionally when it ordered inclusion of
?intelligent design? in its schools? science curricula, the
Philadelphia attorney has been busy fielding media inquiries, lining
up speaking engagements and making up for the 1,200 hours he spent
working on the case pro bono.
Still, sitting back in an elegant conference room at the law firm of
Pepper Hamilton, with an expansive view below of the city in which the
Constitution was written, Rothschild puts the legal victory in
perspective.
The principle of church-state separation ?is a core constitutional
principle that requires protection,? says the bespectacled Rothschild,
a 38-year-old Reform Jew. ?I do think that I?m probably particularly
sensitive to intrusions on this constitutional right because of being
part of a minority religion,? he says. ?I think the Jewish religion,
Jewish practice, has thrived and felt a sense of security in this
country because we really do have such a good structure for protecting
religious freedom.?
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You are invited to check out the following:
The Rise of the Theocratic States of America
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American Theocrats - Past and Present
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The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and State
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.. . . You can't understand a phrase such as "Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion" by syllogistic reasoning. Words
take their meaning from social as well as textual contexts, which is why "a
page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v. Eisner,
256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes, J.).
Sherman v. Community Consol. Dist. 21, 980 F.2d 437, 445 (7th Cir. 1992)
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