The Big G's own Words (no, no, the other G)
June 27, 2002
"The citizens of the United States of America . . . all possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship. It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection, should demean themselves as good citizens, in giving it on all occasions their effectual support.
-- George Washington, 1790, quoted in Bernard Lewis, "Muslims, Christians, and Jews: The Dream of Coexistence," The New York Review of Books, March 26, 1992, p. 49
Posted by Jody at June 27, 2002 01:08 PM