"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.
Not the guy for the job
Anybody here read the Washington Note?
http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/001662.php
Being old enough to remember the Kissenger-brokered settlement - which worked out soooo well - TWN's makes a good point that Dr. K is not the guy you want to talk to when you're bogged down in a third-rate war.