"Besides the danger of a direct mixture of religion and civil government, there is an evil which ought to be guarded against in the indefinite accumulation of property from the capacity of holding it in perpetuity by ecclesiastical corporations.
"The establishment of the chaplainship in Congress is a palpable violation of equal rights as well as of Constitutional principles.
"The danger of silent accumulations and encroachments by ecclesiastical bodies has not sufficiently engaged attention in the U.S."
— -- James Madison, being outvoted in the bill to establish the office of Congressional Chaplain, from the "Detached Memoranda," Elizabeth Fleet, "Madison's Detached Memoranda." William and Mary Quarterly (1946): 554-62.
On the Up-side though
the image insertion into blogs is GREAT! WOW! So for the first time ever, technically clumsy JJ was easily able to post a web image into her story!
This satisfies a long-standing desire of mine, don't be surprised if I image-add all over the place now that I can do . . . just tell me when you want me to stop!