>>>"Obiter dicta from an immigration case/contract dispute. LOL. You'll excuse me if I'm not impressed by the heft of such a citation, seeing as how it has absolutely zero legal meaning."<<<
I am surprised that statements from the ruling, such as the following, are unconvincing:
"These and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation. In the face of all these, shall it be believed that a congress of the United States intended to make it a misdemeanor for a church of this country to contract for the services of a Christian minister residing in another nation?"
Maybe Reynolds vs. United States of 1878 would be more convincing.