Word: blasis
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...avowing furor was the fact that Goodwin may have had a point. "As a matter of common sense, a court should struggle not to reach this result," says Jack Balkin, a professor at Yale Law School. "But the reasoning isn?t crazy. It?s technically correct." Vincent Blasi, a law professor at Columbia University and the University of Virginia, agreed. "If you?re being true to the idea that government must not take positions on religious questions, then the Ninth Circuit opinion is quite persuasive," he says. "There is a powerful desire by majorities to assert a religious identity...