This is a bad scan of a panel from the comic I did this weekend for the January issue of the Ann Arbor Paper. If you can’t read the quote, or tell who it is saying it from my not-quite photo-realistic portrait, it’s something from Thomas Jefferson. Here’s what he said:

”Because religious belief, or non-belief, is such an important part of every person’s life, freedom of religion affects every individual. State churches that use government power to support themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths undermine all our civil rights. Moreover, state support of the church tends to make the clergy unresponsive to the people and leads to corruption within religion. Erecting the ‘wall of separation between church and state,’ therefore, is absolutely essential in a free society.”

Then, right across from it, in the comic, I reprint this 1985 quote from Chief Justice William Rehnquist, taken from the Dissenting Opinion in Wallace v. Jaffree:

“The ‘wall of separation between church and state’ is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned.”

There’s lots of other stuff in the comic too, including references to the giant Jesus torso of Ohio, and the creationism museum, but this is how it ends.