…our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry…
— <p><a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Statute_for_Religious_Freedom">Thomas Jefferson</a>, <i>Virginia Statute For Religious Freedom</i>, 1786.</p><p>I find this passage sadly relevant to my life and work recently. I cannot say more because I fear reprisals (which is the very definition of the <a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_effect">chilling effect</a>.)</p>