Symposium on the Blaine Amendments

The latest volume of the First Amendment Law Review is a symposium on the Blaine Amendments specifically, and the "Separation of Church and State" more generally. Oddly enough, the volume was actually published on the day the Court decided Locke v. Davey. My own essay, "The Theology of the Blaine Amendments," is included, as are several others that will be of interest to Mirror of Justice readers. In particular, Fred Gedicks explores the question whether these provisions have retained their anti-Catholic "social meaning" (here), and Marc Stern contends that, to the extent the Blaine Amendments were anti-Catholic, they were an understandable reaction to the anti-liberalism of certain 19th Century papal statements (here).

Any thoughts?

Rick