Sentences with phrase «endorsement of a particular religion»
Contrary to popular belief, doing away with government endorsement of a particular religion is not the same thing as seeking government endorsement of atheism.
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Although not an endorsement of any particular religion or deity, it has definite spiritual overtones.
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The government's display of the creche in this particular physical setting [is] no more an endorsement of religion than such governmental «acknowledgments» of religion as legislative prayers,... government declaration of Thanksgiving as a public holiday, printing of «In God We Trust» on coins, and opening court sessions with «God save the United States and this honorable court.»
Rehnquist writes, «The phrase «under God» is in no sense a prayer, nor an endorsement of any religion...» In reciting the pledge, «participants promise fidelity to our flag and our Nation, not to any particular God, faith, or church.»
Under the test, first proposed by Supreme Court Justice Sandra O'Connor in a 1984 case from Pawtucket, Rhode Island, a display violates the Establishment Clause if it amounts to an official endorsement of religion, that is, if it suggests that the government approves a particular religious message (or disapproves such a message, though that issue does not regularly arise).