Sentences with phrase «church and state prohibits»

Some continue to believe, mistakenly, that our constitutional «wall of separation» between church and state prohibits serious study of religion in public schools.

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Were the television networks, the movie producers, and the editors of the prestige papers really in charge, there would be no pro-life movement, active euthanasia would be the uncontested law of the land, every school child would be indoctrinated in the joys of gay sex, home schooling would be prohibited, church schools would be run by state agencies, government day care for preschool children would be mandatory, churches would not be tax - exempt, and smoking anywhere would be a criminal offense.

Separation of church and state or «Congress shall make no laws prohibiting religion» DOES N'T preclude taxing them.

«When Christians speak out on issues, the hue and cry from the humanist state and media is that Christians, and all religions, are prohibited from speaking since there is a separation of church and state» (Christian Manifesto.

«Believing... that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their Legislature should «make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,» thus building a wall of separation between Church and State.»

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should «make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,» thus building a wall of separation between church and State.

The grumbling around bingo tables in churches and clubs started in June as word spread of a new state law that prohibited people under the age of 18 from playing.

The Voting Rights Act did not prohibit geography in determining Legislative Districts (contrary to liberal pop culture which also says that First Amendment separated church and state.

No one seems to stop for a second and consider the multitude of churches in the NY area who would simply love to sign marriage licenses for gays and lesbians, but are prohibited from doing so due to draconian state legislation.

Karen He, an aide to State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, presented a letter her office has sent to the State Liquor Authority asking the agency to determine whether the license would violate the «200 foot rule,» a section of the law prohibiting bars near churches and schools.

That clause prohibits «any law respecting an Establishment of Religion» and is popularly understood to create a «wall of separation» between church and state.

Hoping to avoid the risk of breaching an ill - defined boundary between church and state, some public school officials have prohibited elementary school pupils from distributing trinkets with religious messages, and thereby encountered a different peril.

Earlier this year, the ACLU and Americans United for the Separation of Church and State filed a lawsuit claiming that New Hampshire's school choice law was unconstitutional under the state's Blaine Amendment, which prohibits the public funding of religious schState filed a lawsuit claiming that New Hampshire's school choice law was unconstitutional under the state's Blaine Amendment, which prohibits the public funding of religious schstate's Blaine Amendment, which prohibits the public funding of religious schools.

School reformers dislike the fact that the U.S. Constitution is clear about the separation of church and state and that most states have a «no - aid» or Blaine amendment prohibiting states from using tax dollars to fund religious schools.

But the department denied a request from Trinity Lutheran Church, a licensed preschool and daycare, for these funds, citing a Missouri state constitutional provision that prohibits distributing public funds to religious organizations.