A good many people find it comfortable for now, and sufficient, to extol, and propose to enforce, the values of what they call the Judeo-Christian tradition. Theirs is not a long view. Recall again the Islam is the fastest growing religion. It may or may not come to predominate. We can be nearly certain, however, that the current state of affairs will not endure. Today’s Protestant minority in the United States may thank its ancestors who fashioned decent places for minorities when they were the majority. Today’s power structure should be preserving that tradition. It is the essence of the Bill of Rights.

Marvin Frankel
Marvin E. Frankel (1920-2002) American lawyer, judge, legal scholar
Faith and Freedom: Religious Liberty in America (1994)

 
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