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Did such partnership imply exclusion from its privilege for all who could not accept the special brand of religious doctrine?
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski questions whether the partnership between Church and State excludes those with differing religious beliefs.
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When attacks on liberty are political or economic, it is their motive rather than their nature that changes.
We grant toleration in one part of the field only to deny it in another.
We grant it in religion to deny it in politics; we grant it in politics, to deny it in economic matters.
It has been the historic character of persecution always to degrade the persecutor and to strengthen the persecuted by drawing attention to their claims.
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