Overheard on the Web, and other Web links From The Herald's Research Editor
Wednesday, November 24, 2004
Remember the Founders
Fighting Words for a Secular America: this MS Magazine article by Robin Morgan reminds us what the founding fathers believed about religion in America, and why church and state were separated in the Constitution. John Adams:
It will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service [forming the U.S. government] had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the influence of Heaven, more than those at work upon ships or houses, or laboring in merchandise or agriculture; it will forever be acknowledged that these governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses.
Elisabeth (Liz) Donovan was a Herald librarian for 10 years, and Research Editor for 13 years. She came to The Herald in 1981, following several years at the
Washington Post. She started blogging in 2000, with a news research blog, followed by the blog at Herald.com in 2003. A frequent speaker and writer on news research, she was honored in 2004 by the
News Division of the Special Libraries Association for her contributions to
the field.
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