In This Moment (a new Kansas pro­gres­sive blog!) writes about The Fun­da­men­tal­ists’ Bad Bet:

It’s no secret that many fun­da­men­tal­ists want to demol­ish the wall between church and state in the Unit­ed States. They’re not par­tic­u­lar­ly shy about their wish to tear down the two-cen­tu­ry tra­di­tion of for­bid­ding gov­ern­ment from pro­mot­ing religion.

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What strikes me as odd about this is that cam­paign­ing for reli­gious gov­ern­ment is like mak­ing a tru­ly bad bet.

To find out why, click through. She’s right, and this exact prob­lem explains why many of the major church/state legal deci­sions have been issued in cas­es brought not by athe­ists but by mem­bers of reli­gious minorities.