Notes

Introduction

1. 2 Corinthians 6:14. And actually, it’s not all that clear, since First Corinthians 7:12–16 says the opposite. More on that later.

2. Naomi Schaefer Riley, “Interfaith Marriages Are Rising Fast, but They’re Failing Fast Too.” Available at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2010/06/04/AR2010060402011.html. Accessed March 16, 2014.

3. Margaret Vaaler and C. G. Ellison, “Religious Dissimilarity and the Risk of Divorce: Evidence from Two Waves of the National Survey of Families and Households.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, PA, August 12, 2005.

4. Kalman Packouz, How to Prevent an Intermarriage (Nanuet, NY: Philipp Feldheim, 2005).

5. Janice Aron, “Interfaith Marriage Satisfaction Study Yields Answers and More Questions,” August 28, 2009, unpublished doctoral research. Synopsis available at http://www.interfaithfamily.com/relationships/marriage_and_relationships/Interfaith_Marriage_Satisfaction_Study_Yields_Answers_and_More_Questions_.shtml. Accessed March 14, 2014.

6. Riley, “Interfaith Marriages.”

7. Naomi Schaefer Riley, ’Til Faith Do Us Part: How Interfaith Marriage Is Transforming America (New York: Oxford University Press USA, 2013), 120.

8. Cited in Naomi Schaefer Riley, “Interfaith Unions: A Mixed Blessing,” New York Times op-ed (A-17), April 6, 2013. Figure includes intra-Protestant marriages.

9. Not all in the “unaffiliated” category are nonbelievers. For more on this problematic survey category, read Chapter 3, “Meet the Nonbelievers.”

10. U.S. Religious Landscape Survey, Pew Research Center’s Religion & Public Life Project, 2007. Compiled data and graphics available online at http://religions.pewforum.org/portraits. Accessed March 7, 2014.

11. Sam Harris, “The Boundaries of Belief,” On Faith blog, Washington Post online, July 4, 2008. Accessed March 15, 2014.

Chapter 1: The Big Picture

1. “LCMS Participates in Ecumenical Summit on Biblical Marriage, Sexuality,” Lutheran Church Missouri Synod press release, May 14, 2013, http://blogs.lcms.org/2013/lcms-participates-in-ecumenical-summit-on-biblicalmarriage-sexuality. Accessed March 16, 2014.

2. Interracial marriage statistics from Gallup polling data. See article at http://www.gallup.com/poll/163697/approve-marriage-blacks-whites.aspx, accessed March 7, 2014. Sun orbiting the earth from National Science Foundation survey, available online at http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind14/index.cfm/chapter-7/c7h.htm, accessed March 7, 2014.

3. Pew Social Trends, “Marrying Out,” available at http://pewsocialtrends.org/files/2010/10/755-marrying-out.pdf. Accessed March 7, 2014.

4. “A Shifting Landscape: A Decade of Change in American Attitudes About Same-Sex Marriage and LGBT Issues.” Public Religion Research Institute survey, November 12–December 18, 2013. ( N = 4,509).

5. “Changing Attitudes on Gay Marriage,” Pew Research Center, Religion and Public Life Project, slide 3 (http://features.pewforum.org/same-sex-marriage-attitudes/slide3.php). Accessed April 10, 2014.

6. Naomi Schaefer Riley, ’Til Faith Do Us Part: How Interfaith Marriage Is Transforming America (New York: Oxford University Press USA, 2013), 6.

7. “Faith in Flux” survey, Pew Research Center’s Religion & Public Life Project, April 27, 2009, http://www.pewforum.org/Faith-in-Flux.aspx. Accessed March 9, 2014.

8. Robert Putnam and David E. Campbell, American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012), 134–135.

9. Ibid.

10. Silver, Christopher, and Thomas Silver. “Atheism, Agnosticism, and Nonbelief: A Qualitative and Quantitative Study of Type and Narrative,” University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Research in pre-publication phase as of January 2014. See project description at http://atheismresearch.com/. Accessed March 16, 2014.

11. Data from the McGowan-Sikes survey of secular/religious mixed marriages, conducted in June–July 2013 ( N = 994).

12. U.S. Census, 2010.

13. Putnam and Campbell, American Grace, 522.

14. Ibid., 523.

15. Ibid.

16. Ibid., 526–527.

17. Ibid.

18. This does not include intra-Protestant mixes, such as a Lutheran marrying a Methodist, which would raise the total even higher, to 37% of all current U.S. marriages. U.S. Religious Landscape Survey, Pew Research Center’s Religion & Public Life Project, 2007. Compiled data and graphics available online at http://religions.pewforum.org/portraits. Accessed March 7, 2014.

19. “Brides, Grooms Often Have Different Faiths,” Pew Research Center’s Religion & Public Life Project (2009). Available online at http://www.pewforum.org/2009/06/04/brides-grooms-often-have-different-faiths. Accessed March 7, 2014.

20. Ibid.

21. M. J. Penton, Apocalypse Delayed: The Story of Jehovah’s Witnesses (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008), 280–283.

22. U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, http://www.bjs.gov. Accessed January 6, 2014.

23. http://christianstiredofbeingmisrepresented.blogspot.com/p/about-us.html.

24. “Polarised Voters, or Polarised Choices?” Economist, August 10, 2012, http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2012/08/presidential-race.

25. “Overlapping Pro-Choice and Pro-Life Identities,” article and graphic based on Religion, Millennials, and Abortion survey by the Public Religion Research Institute, June 9, 2011. Available online at http://publicreligion.org/2013/01/graphic-of-the-week-overlapping-pro-choice-and-pro-life-identities. Accessed March 7, 2014.

26. More on the Belief-O-Matic in action in Chapter 9.

27. Pew Research Center, “The States of Marriage and Divorce,” available online at http://www.pewresearch.org/2009/10/15/the-states-of-marriage-and-divorce/. Accessed March 7, 2014.

28. Naomi Schaefer Riley, ’Til Faith Do Us Part: How Interfaith Marriage Is Transforming America (New York: Oxford University Press USA, 2013), 11.

Chapter 2: Meet the Believers

1. U.S. Religious Landscape Survey, Pew Research Center, 2008. Compiled data and graphics available online at http://religions.pewforum.org/portraits. Accessed March 7, 2014.

2. Cited in Robert Putnam and David E. Campbell, American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012), 538.

3. McGowan-Sikes survey, 2013.

4. “Faith in Flux” survey, Pew Research Center’s Religion & Public Life Project, April 27, 2009, http://www.pewforum.org/Faith-in-Flux.aspx. Accessed March 9, 2014.

5. Catechism of the Catholic Church, n. 2357, 2370, 2384, 2271, respectively.

6. “Catholic Attitudes on Gay and Lesbian Issues,” Public Religion Research Institute report, March 2011. Once again, even the papacy has shown a marked shift on the issue. In 2005, Benedict XVI wrote that homosexuality constituted “a strong tendency ordered toward an intrinsic moral evil.” In 2013, his successor, Francis, responded to a question about homosexuality by saying, “If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?”

7. Gallup Values and Beliefs survey, May 3–6, 2012.

8. “Catholic Voters’ Views on Health Care Reform and Reproductive Health Care Services: A National Opinion Survey of Catholic Voters,” Beldon, Russonello, & Stewart Research and Communications report, September 2009.

9. Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, July 2009.

10. Sacraments Today: Belief and Practice Among U.S. Catholics, 2008.

11. U.S. Religious Landscape Survey, Pew Research Center, 2007. Compiled data and graphics available online at http://religions.pewforum.org/portraits. Accessed March 7, 2014.

12. “Report Examines the State of Mainline Protestant Churches,” The Barna Group. December 7, 2009.

13. Putnam and Campbell, American Grace, 112.

14. Pew Research Center’s Religion & Public Life Project data, available at http://religions.pewforum.org/portraits. Accessed March 7, 2014.

15. Aggregated data from Pew Research Center’s Religion & Public Life Project annual polls as of 2013.

16. Ibid.

17. Ibid., data through March 2014.

18. Public Religion Research Institute/Religion News Service survey, September 14–18, 2011.

19. The version of the Baptist Faith and Message used by her church is available at http://www.travis.org/what-we-believe. Accessed January 6, 2014. The official, unabridged version of the creed is available at the website of the Southern Baptist Convention: http://www.sbc.net/bfm/bfm2000.asp. Accessed March 31, 2014.

20. Sergio DellaPergola, “World Jewish Population, 2010,” in Current Jewish Population Reports, ed. Arnold Dashefsky and Ira Sheskin. (Storrs, CT: North American Jewish Data Bank).

21. Quoted in Naomi Schaefer Riley, ’Til Faith Do Us Part: How Interfaith Marriage Is Transforming America (New York: Oxford University Press USA, 2013), 20.

22. “The World’s Muslims: Unity and Diversity,” Pew Research Religion and Public Life Project survey, 2011.

23. Ibid.

24. Ibid.

25. U.S. Religious Landscape Survey, Pew Research Center’s Religion & Public Life Project, 2007. Compiled data and graphics available online at http://religions.pewforum.org/portraits. Accessed March 7, 2014.

26. Public Religion Research Institute survey, June 9, 2011.

27. U.S. national survey conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Religion & Public Life Project from July 31 to August 10, 2008.

Chapter 3: Meet the Nonbelievers

1. Faith Matters survey, Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, conducted June 29–August 29, 2006 ( N = 3,100).

2. Kosmin, Barry. American Religious Identification Survey, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 1990 and 2012.

3. Personal conversation with Christopher Silver, August 13, 2014.

4. Silver, Christopher, and Thomas Coleman. “Atheism, Agnosticism, and Nonbelief: A Qualitative and Quantitative Study of Type and Narrative,” University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Qualitative interviews ( N = 59), followup testing, and quantitative survey ( N = 1,153) completed June 6, 2013. Research at this writing is pre-publication. Executive summary available at http://www.atheismresearch.com. Accessed March 9, 2014.

5. A favorite personal saying, inscribed on Huxley’s memorial at Ealing, quoted in Nature XLVI (30 October 1902), 658.

6. Susan B. Anthony, “On the Campaign for Divorce Law Reform” (pamphlet, 1860).

7. Interview with Empire Online, available at http://www.empireonline.com/interviews/interview.asp?IID=1192. Accessed March 27, 2014.

8. Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian (New York: Basic Books, 2009), 55.

9. Jonathan Rauch, “Let It Be,” The Atlantic 291, no. 4 (May 2003), 34.

10. Alain de Botton, Religion for Atheists: A Nonbeliever’s Guide to the Uses of Religion (New York: Vintage Books, 2013), 14.

11. Silver and Coleman, “Atheism, Agnosticism, and Nonbelief.”

12. Personal conversation with Christopher Silver, August 13, 2014.

13. Ibid.

14. From executive summary of Silver and Coleman, “Atheism, Agnosticism, and Nonbelief,” at http://www.atheismresearch.com. Accessed March 9, 2014.

15. Ibid.

16. Ibid.

17. Robert Altemeyer and Bruce Hunsberger, Atheists: A Groundbreaking Study of America’s Nonbelievers (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2006), 59–68.

18. Ibid., 66.

19. Sunstein, Cass. Going to Extremes: How Like Minds Unite and Divide. (New York: Oxford University Press, USA; Reprint edition, 2011).

20. U.S. Religious Landscape Survey, Pew Research Center’s Religion & Public Life Project, 2007. Compiled data and graphics available online at http://religions.pewforum.org/portraits. Accessed March 7, 2014.

Chapter 4: What Helps, and What Doesn’t

1. J. J. Lehmiller, “Perceived Marginalization and Its Association with Physical and Psychological Health,” Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 29 (2012), 451–469.

Chapter 9: Finding a Meeting Place

1. See Chapter 1 for more on the Belief-O-Matic Quiz.

2. Taken from http://www.uua.org/beliefs/principles/. Accessed January 4, 2014.

Chapter 11: The Unequally Yoked Club

1. A longer version of this first-person account first appeared in serial form in Cassidy’s blog “Roll to Disbelieve” at http://rolltodisbelieve.wordpress.com. Accessed December 26, 2013.

Chapter 12: Trivial Differences, Common Values

1. Adult male fandom of this children’s show has grown into a sizable phenomenon in recent years. Known as “bronies,” the fans are often considered part of the New Sincerity trend, an attempt to counter modern trends toward cynicism and irony by encouraging appreciation of simple and straightforward emotion in art and entertainment.

Chapter 13: Discovering the Difference

1. More on her differences from Baptist doctrine in Chapter 2.

2. U.S. national survey conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Religion & Public Life Project from July 31 to August 10, 2008.

3. McGowan-Sikes survey, 2013.

4. R. Gaunt, “Couple Similarity and Marital Satisfaction: Are Similar Spouses Happier?” Journal of Personality 74, no. 5 (2006), 1401–1420.

5. Designed by social psychologist Dr. Brittany Shoots-Reinhard for this book. Although drawing from research on values and relationships, this quiz has not been scientifically validated as an independent instrument.

6. C. D. Lomore, S. J. Spencer, and J. G. Holmes, “The Role of Shared-Values Affirmation in Enhancing the Feelings of Low Self-Esteem Women About Their Relationships,” Self & Identity 6, no. 4 (2007), 340–360.

7. Gaunt, “Couple Similarity”; S. S. Hendrick, “Self-Disclosure and Marital Satisfaction,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 40, no. 6 (1981), 1150–1159; C. J. Lutz-Zois, A. C. Bradley, J. L. Mihalik, and E. R. Moorman-Eavers, “Perceived Similarity and Relationship Success Among Dating Couples: An Idiographic Approach,” Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 23, no. 6 (2006), 865–880.

8. E. C. J. Long, “Maintaining a Stable Marriage,” Journal of Divorce & Remarriage 21, no. 1–2 (1994), 121–138; E. C. J. Long and D. W. Andrews, “Perspective Taking as a Predictor of Marital Adjustment,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 59, no. 1 (1990), 126–131.

9. J. P. Meyer and S. Pepper, “Need Compatibility and Marital Adjustment in Young Married Couples,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 35, no. 5 (1977), 331–342; S. G. White and C. Hatcher, “Couple Complementarity and Similarity: A Review of the Literature,” American Journal of Family Therapy 12, no. 1 (1984), 15–25.

Chapter 14: Tying the Knot Across the Gap

1. A Sanskrit word meaning “Hail!” Also the name of Agni’s wife, who presides over all burnt offerings. Always chanted during Hindu fire rituals.

2. Khalil Gibran, The Prophet (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929).

3. 1 Corinthians 13:1–8. Translation from the New American Standard Bible.

4. Neale Donald Walsch, Conversations with God, Book 3 (Newburyport, MA: Hampton Roads Publishing, 1998), 239.

5. “A Portrait of Jewish Americans,” Pew Center’s Religion & Public Life Project, October 1, 2013.

6. Ibid.

7. U.S. Religious Landscape Survey, Pew Research Center’s Religion & Public Life Project, 2007. Compiled data and graphics available online at http://religions.pewforum.org/portraits. Accessed March 7, 2014.

8. Ibid.

9. Ibid.

10. Carl Olson, The Many Colours of Hinduism: A Thematic-Historical Introduction (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2007), 9.

11. Available online at www.sacred-texts.com/bud/btg/btg21.htm. Accessed March 11, 2014.

12. Though attributed to Native American tradition, this lovely passage was actually penned for the 1947 novel Blood Brother by Elliott Arnold.

13. Available online at www.beliefnet.com/Prayers/Other-Faiths/Marriage/When-Two-People-Are-One.aspx. Accessed January 6, 2014.

14. Available online at ocean.otr.usm.edu/~w312788/comprel/summer/KrishnaRadha.htm.

15. See Naomi Schaefer Riley, ’Til Faith Do Us Part: How Interfaith Marriage Is Transforming America (New York: Oxford University Press USA, 2013), 74.

Chapter 15: Church, Prayer, Holidays, and More

1. McGowan-Sikes survey, 2013.

2. To compare apples to apples, I have compared claimed attendance of the cohort to claimed attendance of the general population. Actual attendance for both is likely much lower than the claims—around 20% for the general population. See M. Chaves, K. Hadaway, and P. Marler, “Overreporting Church Attendance in America: Evidence That Demands the Same Verdict,” American Sociological Review 63, no. 1 (February 1998), 122–130.

3. Excerpted from Leith Anderson, Winning the Values War in a Changing Culture (Ada, MI: Bethany House, 1994).

4. In the wake of an outcry from Barna’s fellow Evangelicals, the Barna study was removed from public access but is cited in detail at http://divorce.lovetoknow.com/Divorce_Statistics_by_Religion. Accessed January 4, 2014.

5. Chaeyoon Lim and Robert D. Putnam, “Religion, Social Networks, and Life Satisfaction,” American Sociological Review 75, no. 6 (December 2010), 914–933.

6. Quoted in Stephanie Pappas, “Why Religion Makes People Happier (Hint: Not God),” LiveScience, http://www.livescience.com/9090-religion-people-happierhint-god.html. Accessed March 11, 2014.

7. Ibid.

Chapter 16: Who Are You?

1. Institut de la statistique Québec: http://www.stat.gouv.qc.ca/statistiques/index_an.html.

2. Chaeyoon Lim and Robert D. Putnam, “Religion, Social Networks, and Life Satisfaction,” American Sociological Review 75, no. 6 (December 2010), 914–933.

3. Psalm 14:1.

Chapter 17: Communication and Respect

1. Quotes from Pete and Joan’s story first appeared in Pete Wernick, “Parenting in a Secular/Religious Marriage,” in Parenting Beyond Belief, ed. Dale McGowan (New York: AMACOM, 2007).

2. Ibid.

3. Gottman, John. The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work (New York: Harmony Books, 2000), 27–32.

4. Robert Altemeyer and Bruce Hunsberger, Atheists: A Groundbreaking Study of America’s Nonbelievers (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2006).

5. Ibid., 60.

6. Ibid.

7. Examples include Lawrence Kurdek, “Dimensionality of the Dyadic Adjustment Scale: Evidence from Heterosexual and Homosexual Couples,” Journal of Family Psychology 6, no. 1 (September 1992), 22–35; and Patricia Fishman, “Interfaith Marriage, Religious Orientation, and Dyadic Adjustment.” Master’s thesis, Northern Illinois University, 2010.

8. Study cited in Francine Russo, “How Not Talking About Conflict Could Help a Marriage Last,” Time, July 2, 2013.

9. Ibid.

10. McGowan-Sikes survey, 2013.

11. A reference to the subtitle of Hitchens’s book God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (New York: Twelve Books, 2007).

12. Pete Wernick, “Parenting in a Secular/Religious Marriage,” in Parenting Beyond Belief, ed. Dale McGowan (New York: AMACOM, 2007).

Chapter 18: Extended Family

1. Christopher R. Agnew, Timothy J. Loving, and Stephen M. Drigotas, “Substituting the Forest for the Trees: Social Networks and the Prediction of Romantic Relationship State and Fate,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 81, no. 6 (2001), 1042–1057; P. E. Etcheverry and C. R. Agnew, “Subjective Norms and the Prediction of Romantic Relationship State and Fate,” Personal Relationships 11 (2004), 409–428.

2. J. J. Lehmiller, “Perceived Marginalization and Its Association with Physical and Psychological Health,” Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 29 (2012), 451.

3. Cited in Naomi Schaefer Riley, “Interfaith Unions: A Mixed Blessing,” New York Times op-ed (A-17), April 6, 2013. Figure includes intra-Protestant marriages.

4. In roughly a third of these, there was no tension because the couple shared the same faith at the wedding.

5. McGowan-Sikes survey, 2013.

6. Robert Putnam and David E. Campbell, American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012), 526–527.

7. First Amendment and Article 18, respectively. For more on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, see Chapter 19.

8. Nontheists who consider religion in general to be harmful or abusive should seek the opinion of a credible third party in determining whether a given practice qualifies.

9. See Marshall Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life (Encinitas, CA: Puddledancer Press, 2003).

Chapter 19: Kids in the Mix

1. J. H. Kellogg. “Solitary Vice,” in Plain Facts for Old and Young (Burlington, IA: Segner and Condit, 1881).

2. Available at http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/103/3/686.full. Accessed January 4, 2014.

3. Available at http://www.aafp.org/patient-care/clinical-recommendations/all/circumcision.html. Accessed January 4, 2014.

4. Douglas Gairdner, “The Fate of the Foreskin: A Study of Circumcision,” British Medical Journal 2 (1949), 1433–1437. Available at http://www.cirp.org/library/general/gairdner/. Accessed January 4, 2014.

5. Book of Common Prayer, 298.

6. Book of Occasional Services (2003), 159.

7. Website of the Episcopal Diocese of New York, “Concerning Baptism,” http://www.dioceseny.org/pages/228. Accessed January 4, 2014.

8. Speech to the national convention of Atheist Alliance International, September 29, 2007.

9. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, available online at www.un.org/en/documents/udhr. Accessed January 4, 2014.

10. “Raising Children in Two Faiths,” op-ed by Rabbi Joshua M. Davidson, New York Times, November 6, 2013, A28.

11. Pew Research Religion and Public Life Project, Religious Knowledge survey, conducted May 19–June 6, 2010.

12. McGowan-Sikes survey, 2013.

13. Catholic Code of Canon Law 1125, available online at www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/_P41.HTM. Accessed January 4, 2014.

14. Ibid.

15. Fr. Robert J. Hater, When a Catholic Marries a Non-Catholic (Cincinnati, OH: St. Anthony Messenger Press, 2006).

16. Pew Research Religion and Public Life Project, Religious Landscape survey, Chapter 1, p. 33, available online at http://religions.pewforum.org/pdf/report2religious-landscape-study-chapter-1.pdf. Accessed March 16, 2014.

17. Sutrakritinga; Wisdom of the Living Religions #69, I:II:33.

18. Udanavarga 5, 18.

19. Plato, Crito (49c).

20. Mahabharata 5, 1517.

21. Confucius, Analects 15, 23.

22. Matthew 7:12.

23. Talmud, Shabbat 3id.

24. Azizullah, Hadith 150.

25. T’ai Shang Kan Ying P’ien.

26. Baha’u’llah, Gleanings, LXVI:8.

27. The Wiccan Rede.

28. Quoted in Beth Pearson, “The Art of Creating Ethics Man,” The Herald (Scotland), January 23, 2006.

29. James Dobson, The New Dare to Discipline (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale Momentum, 1996), 6, 35, 65.

30. Elizabeth Gershoff, “Corporal Punishment by Parents and Asociated Child Behaviors and Experiences: A Meta-Analytic and Theoretical Review,” Psychological Bulletin 128, no. 4 (July 2002), 539–579.

Chapter 20: Parting Ways

1. “Divorce Rate Drops to Lowest Rate Since 1970,” USA Today, May 11, 2007. Available online at http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-05-11-divorce-decline_N.htm. Accessed March 16, 2014.

2. U.S. Census data, available online at www.census.gov/hhes/socdemo/marriage/data/acs/ElliottetalPAA2012figs.pdf. Accessed March 16, 2014.

3. Tara Parker-Pope, For Better: How the Surprising Science of Happy Couples Can Help Your Marriage Succeed (New York: Plume, 2011), 9–12.

4. Cited in Naomi Schaefer Riley, “Interfaith Unions: A Mixed Blessing,” New York Times op-ed (A-17), April 6, 2013. Figure includes intra-Protestant marriages.

5. Constance Ahrons, The Good Divorce (New York: HarperCollins, 1994), 2–5.

6. Ibid. 50–59.

7. Personal blog of Eugene Volokh, available online at http://www.volokh.com/posts/1125342962.shtml. Accessed March 16, 2014.

8. Supreme Court of the State of Mississippi, McLemore v. McLemore, 762 So.2d 316 (2000), and Hodge v. Hodge, 186 So.2d 748, 750 (1966). Available at http://www.leagle.com/decision/20001078762So2d316_11075.xml/McLEMORE%20v.%20McLEMORE. Accessed March 20, 2014.

Chapter 21: The Positive Side of the Secular/Religious Mix

1. First appeared on Alise Wright’s blog Alise … Write! at http://alise-write.com, May 29, 2012. Accessed March 16, 2014.