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Scalia: Courts misinterpreting church-state seperation Monday, January 13, 2003 FREDERICKSBURG, Virginia (AP) -- Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia complained Sunday that courts have gone overboard in keeping God out of government. Scalia, speaking at a religious ceremony, said the constitutional wall between church and state has been misinterpreted both by the Supreme Court and lower courts. As an example, he pointed to a ruling in California that barred students from saying the Pledge of Allegiance with the phrase 'one nation under God.' Scalia, the main speaker at an event for Religious Freedom Day, said past rulings by his own court gave the judges in the Pledge case 'some plausible support' to reach that conclusion. However, the justice said he believes such decisions should be made legislatively, not by courts. The rally-style event drew a lone protester, who silently held a sign promoting the separation of church and state...
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