NYT:
CRANSTON, R.I. — She is 16, the daughter of a firefighter and a nurse, a self-proclaimed nerd who loves Harry Potter and Facebook. But Jessica Ahlquist is also an outspoken atheist who has incensed this heavily Roman Catholic city with a successful lawsuit to get a prayer removed from the wall of her high school auditorium, where it has hung for 49 years.
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Catholics should understand separation of church and state. Protestant domination of public schools forced them to...
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This isn’t meant to offend Roman Catholics, I just thought this was an interesting article.
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