The same chapter contains lines that often are cited as the basis for Christian warmth: "Love your neighbor as yourself.
One factor that is not different, however, is the way that religion has often been cited as a basis for discrimination.
The decision is not in danger of being overturned by the current Supreme Court, but neither is it likely to be cited as the basis for future rulings.
A reference in John 18 20 22 to an officer who struck Jesus at his arraignment before Annas is sometimes cited as the basis for the legend.
Specifically, the bill would compel the first public airing of the so-called Fisa court's understandings of section 215 of the Patriot Act, which the government has cited as the basis for collecting the phone records of millions of Americans; and section 702 of the 2008 Fisa Amendments Act, which the government has cited as the basis for the NSA internet monitoring program known as Prism.
But many members of Congress said that even in the rush to assure the nation and the world that the nation's leaders were united, they tried to avoid making as open-ended a commitment as the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution of 1964, which President Lyndon B. Johnson cited as his basis for escalating the Vietnam War.
These days, he said, while it is rare to hear the Bible cited as a basis for negative statements about "the Jews," a broader problem exists in that many Christians possess "a much more subtle and intractable disregard" for Judaism as a vital faith in its own right.
When, in 1906, whites began wresting black passengers from streetcars and murdering them in the streets of downtown Atlanta, sparking three days of riots and resulting in dozens of black casualties, a specious wave of black crime was cited as the basis for their actions.
But others said some of the methods that prosecutors have cited as a basis for criminal charges, including chaining prisoners to the ceilings of isolation cells for long periods, were either standard practice at the prison or well-known to those who oversaw it.
