Must Democracy be Secular?

I stumbled on this 11/2004 article doing other research, but it is an interesting question. Of course, democracies have only recently been completely secular (including the US). The question is being examined anew though with the though of an Islamic democracy, and what that might mean for Iraq.

It is going to be interesting to see the answer evolve.

More on the new town in Florida...

Another update on Ave Maria.

'Pizza pope' builds a Catholic heaven - Sunday Times - Times Online

Someone anonymously emailed me about this. I had heard about the university, but not the town. It does sound like an interesting test of the non-establishment clause (commonly misquoted as the "separation of church and state", which is nowhere in the constitution).

I'm not sure I would be in a hurry to move there though, but only because I've been in Florida in the Summer. I have been thinking of moving to South Dakota though....