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inlawrev-22846	Bickers, John M.	False Facts and Holy War: How the Supreme Court's Establishment Clause Cases Fuel Religious Conflict	2018	52	.pdf	application/pdf	28124	1437	61	After the people of Alabama returned him to the court, and the Supreme Court found a right to marital equality in the Fourteenth Amendment, he was removed a second time; this followed his order to the probate judges of Alabama to ignore the U.S. Supreme Court and refuse to issue marriage licenses to same sex couples. When the local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union informed the board of their concerns with sectarian prayer, members of the board announced their defiance and promised to continue the government’s Christian speech.260 After the initiation of the lawsuit, the next elections saw two incumbents favor continuing the Christian prayer and two challengers opposing it; both incumbents won.261 The specter that minority religions can only have equality once they achieve electoral superiority is precisely the concern with leaving such matters to the ballot box that animated what is, in my view, the most important footnote in U.S. Supreme Court history.262 The court’s majority expressed the fear that not being a Christian in Rowan County would be a “tacit political debit, which in turn deters those of minority faiths from seeking office.	cache/inlawrev-22846.pdf	txt/inlawrev-22846.txt