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“1 do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.” (Winston Churchill)

Debating Jim Oyster, J.D., L.L.M., of Castleton is like being at the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party. He keeps arguing with me about something I didn’t say.

I have a semi-serious bone to pick with Mr. Oyster. Recently he wrote a long opinion piece in which he state incorrectly that I had based my opposition to the Faith Based Initiative plan on some sort of “liberal interpretation” of the First Amendment. I had not done that, but I had warned about the merging of church and state, and quoted Jefferson’s admonition regarding the First Amendment’s intent, i.e., that it was intended to “create a wall of separation between church and state.”

So I pointed out to him that Madison’s “original intent”, on which a “conservative interpretation” would be based, most likely would concur with Jefferson's thought

See JONES, Page A5

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