"Encourage free schools and resolve that not one dollar appropriated for their support shall be appropriated to the support of any sectarian schools. Resolve that neither the state nor nation, nor both combined, shall support institutions of learning other than those sufficient to afford every child growing up in the land of opportunity of a good common school education, unmixed with sectarian, pagan, or atheistical dogmas. Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church and the private school supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate."
— -- Ulysses S. Grant, address to the Army of the Tennessee, Des Moines, Iowa, September 25, 1875, from Albert J. Menendez and Edd Doerr, The Great Quotations on Religious Freedom
I honestly do not understand
I honestly do not understand why people in the gossip business hate Perez Hilton (aka Mario Lavandeira) so much. I don't know if it's because he is :
1. A successful blogger
2. A successful gay blogger
3. A successful gay latino blogger
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Um, no. Personally, it's because he is a misogynistic, biased hypocrite, who takes great pleasure in attacking and humiliating women for being "fat" or "old", while acting as (paid? unpaid?) publicist for certain D-list celebrities.
I'm not in the "gossip business", and am a former reader of Perez Hilton.
You may want to investigate the fact that "Mario" is now CENSORING his own readership, particularly from posting negative comments about his beloved sponsor, Paris Hilton.
Wow, what a champion of free speech.