"Is the appointment of Chaplains to the two Houses of Congress consistent with the Constitution, and with the pure principle of religious freedom? In strictness the answer on both points must be in the negative. The Constitution of the U. S. forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion. The law appointing Chaplains establishes a religious worship for the national representatives, to be performed by Ministers of religion, elected by a majority of them, and these are to be paid out of the national taxes. Does this not involve the principle of a national establishment...?"
— -- James Madison, "Essay on Monopolies" unpublished until 1946, cited in Brant, Irving, The Bill of Rights, 1965, from Albert J. Menendez and Edd Doerr, The Great Quotations on Religious Freedom
interesting thought
And probably an accurate one, but it's at best a coping mechanism; it doesn't stop the hypersexualizing.
And a thought occurred to me after I posted this. Part of what seems hypersexual about the dolls is their big, pouty lips. And then I remembered that white folks don't normally have big pouty lips but other folks DO. So I started thinking, am I just being a racist bitch? And then I remembered that neither white folks or black folks are born with eyeliner. And then I relaxed.
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