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A traditional argument against state financial support for relig-ion is that such support violates taxpayers' freedom of conscience. Just as compelling religious speech or worship infringes on religious liberty so, too, does requiring citizens to pay for religious expressions they find objectionable. Religion should be supported only through voluntary contributions and not with funds raised through government coercion. As Thomas Jefferson famously wrote in the preamble to the Virginia Bill for Religious Freedom," To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the