Sentences with phrase «establishment of religion»

A federal district judge ruled that the display is an unconstitutional government establishment of religion.

Others go further and believe that the prohibition against establishment of a religion equally prevents suppression of such religious displays.

In some states a condition of de facto establishment of religion already exists.

It respects multiple establishments of religion - anything with a god.

The judge held that the voucher program's inclusion of religious schools was likely an unconstitutional establishment of religion under the First Amendment.

Very few twenty - first - century Christians would welcome a return to state establishments of religion as the accepted norm.

Neither can pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religions, or prefer one religion to another... in the words of Jefferson, the [First Amendment] clause against establishment of religion by law was intended to erect «a wall of separation between church and State»... That wall must be kept high and impregnable.

Some insist that the Air Force Academy must allow for free expression of religion and that telling someone about Jesus does not constitute establishment of religion.

The Court held that Washington could justify this exclusion as a way to avoid an unconstitutional establishment of religion under the state Constitution.

Existing constitutional provisions against establishments of religion did not bar public spending on education from reaching schools with religious affiliations, and Blaine's amendment did not propose to alter this arrangement except by excluding Catholics.

Like John Rawls, she finally posits her universe as normative, refusing to recognize that this is a de facto establishment of religion imposed against the threat of establishing religion.

Early in this awakening there appeared the new traditionalist movement, led by Timothy Dwight, who preached return to the old order, aroused the populace against the dangers of foreigners, attacked deistic heresies and rebellion among the youth, and urged maintaining the old establishment of religion.

The Court held the school district's policy a forbidden establishment of religion.

The First Amendment's prohibition against governmental establishment of religion was written on the assumption that state aid to religion and religious schools generates discord, disharmony, hatred, and strife among our people, and that any government that supplies such aids is to that extent a tyranny....

Even if their transformative methods work, they constitute an example of government establishment of religion.»

Washington — The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether a federal law that prohibits high schools from discriminating against student religious groups violates the First Amendment's ban on state establishment of religion.

«In the words of Jefferson, the clause against establishment of religion by law was intended to erect «a wall of separation between church and state.»

Constitutional Amendment 1: «Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances»

Re «Sticking with Trump» (March 24): Marc Thiessen is a good spokesman for religious conservatives who blatantly advocate ignoring the First Amendment's stipulation that the government «make no law respecting an establishment of religion.»

As a Christian from the South, I've always felt that the biggest threat to my 1st Amendment rights, «Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,» was the far right / conservative christians.

If this had happened to a Christian, you would be clammering for their arrest because your misconceived notion of congress making no law regarding the establishment of religion.

Impliedly that means NOT RESPECT the establishment of any religion in whole or in part, including positions based on religious beliefs (e.g. anti-abortion, marriage between a man and a woman etc.).

Allowing church services in any government building is illegal and is «respecting an establishment of religion» and is prohibited by the First Amendment.

The First Amendment states that our government shall NOT RESPECT the establishment of a religion.

The fact is, in America, we have a law that says «Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof».

In fact, the Blaine Amendments are among the clearest examples in the nation's history of a state establishment of religion — and the only reason they have not been recognized as such is that they establish a theologically liberal vision of religion.

The problem is not that Justice Stevens took the position that educational vouchers paid to parents and available for use in either secular or religious schools amounted to an establishment of religion.

Secular is as much about the freedom of religious expression as it is about the establishment of religion, i.e. the separation of church and state.

As far as I know, The First Amendment of the Bill of Rights states that «Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.»

I hope for your sake you have enough sense to realize the 1st Amendment is applied more broadly than just the establishment of a religion.

re: «Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.»

Establishment of a religion.

I would point out, however, that the actual language of the Bill of Rights says, «Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.»

The best part about living in a secular country is that religious opinions of marriage are irrelevant to the legal definition as «Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.»

The reason Mitchell is not on trial for blasphemy is because the first admendment bans both the establishment of religion and the restriction of the free exercise thereof.

«Treating ministers like other professionals isn't an establishment of religion; it's fair tax treatment,» Luke Goodrich said, representing the Becket Fund.

Two non-Christian town residents — Susan Galloway (who is Jewish) and Linda Stephens (who is an atheist)-- objected, arguing that this practice violated the First Amendment's Establishment Clause, which states, «Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion.»

The «establishment of religion» clause of the First Amendment means at least this: Neither a state nor the Federal Government can set up a church.

The statute and resolution did not violate the provision of the First Amendment (made applicable to the states by the Fourteenth Amendment) prohibiting any «law respecting an establishment of religion.»

The First Amendment to the Constitution declares that «Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.»

The state exists neither for the establishment of religion nor for the elimination of religion but for the freedom of religion.

Hence, «Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof».