Introduction

It is my pleasure to welcome you to the American Association of Law Schools' 2004 Law and Religion section Meeting and to thank our distinguished panel for being with us to address the topic, "One Nation Under God? Unity, Diversity, and Neutrality Under the Religion Clauses." We meet in interesting times, when questions about the proper place of religion in public life and public support for religious life are matters of deep and spirited national concern. The questions we address today are not esoteric matters of interest only to specialists, although our panelists bring a depth, care, and subtlety of thinking to these issues that is often lacking from the heated political and …