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It isn’t actually an attack on religion. But that is surely how it will be depicted by some, and misconstrued deliberately by others, when the ad below appears in the New York Times tomorrow, sponsored by an organization whose name says it is seeking freedom from religion. \u00a0 The cause of keeping religion and state […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,75,80],"tags":[401,434,435,870,872,4528,4682,5125,8078,8088,10185,10327,11738],"class_list":["post-29481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism-religion","category-politics","category-religion","tag-advertisement","tag-agnosticism","tag-agnostics","tag-atheism-religion","tag-atheists","tag-hemant-mehta","tag-hobby-lobby","tag-indiana","tag-new-york-times","tag-newspaper","tag-religious-freedom-restoration-act","tag-rfra","tag-sponsor"],"yoast_head":"\n
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