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Roland Menestres: Separate and protected

Beware of states legislating personal beliefs! One day they’ll come for someone’s religion or mine. It has been done way too many times in the world’s history and always to tragic ends.

Religion’s best protection still is a strong church-state separation; nothing short of it.

Roland Menestres

Raleigh

This story was originally published April 11, 2015 at 4:00 PM with the headline "Roland Menestres: Separate and protected."

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