Dear Editor:
The article on Rehnquist, Rep. Tom DeLay and "judicial activists" would have been an opportunity for commentary on the Constitution's commandments relating to religion and government. The Founding Fathers commanded "no religious test" shall ever be required, and the first Congress commanded that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of "religion."
As James Madison wrote long ago, "Strongly guarded as is the separation between Religion and Government in the Constitution of the United States, the danger of encroachment by Ecclesiastical Bodies may be illustrated by precedents already furnished in their short history." The Madison quote is never referenced by DeLay or Rehnquist.
Gene Garman
Pittsburg, KS