What if when the men in the Old North Church in Boston were preparing to hoist the lanterns into the belfry to signal Paul Revere that the British were coming, they decided to scrub sending the message for fear of violating a separation of church and state law ?
Hmmm, a political joke on a political forum? How dare they! Still, you are the moderator...
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