"Besides the danger of a direct mixture of religion and civil government, there is an evil which ought to be guarded against in the indefinite accumulation of property from the capacity of holding it in perpetuity by ecclesiastical corporations.
"The establishment of the chaplainship in Congress is a palpable violation of equal rights as well as of Constitutional principles.
"The danger of silent accumulations and encroachments by ecclesiastical bodies has not sufficiently engaged attention in the U.S."
— -- James Madison, being outvoted in the bill to establish the office of Congressional Chaplain, from the "Detached Memoranda," Elizabeth Fleet, "Madison's Detached Memoranda." William and Mary Quarterly (1946): 554-62.
Well
I have always preferred BBC News anyway. Now I just have more reason to get the story through them than AP. And their coverage is almost always better. Of course they don't always cover the same stuff. Salon.com uses AP wires though, and they are another of my preferred sources.
Say "hi" to Cox for me. And if he's curious, let him know what we consulted him on really went no where.