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But it was not just the justices affirming that the First Amendment protects religious expression that makes Shurtleff a landmark decision of immense significance. The justices also laid the groundwork for reversing the “Lemon Test” the Court had established way back in 1971 in Lemon v. Kurtzman.

As Anne Howe on Scotus Blog explained following the Court’s Kennedy v. Bremerton School District decision, the Lemon test was used for decades by the Court “to decide that a law or practice will pass constitutional muster if it has a secular purpose, its principal effect does not advance or inhibit religion, and it does not create an ‘excessive entanglement with religion.’”

The Bremerton decision affirmed that high school football coach Joseph Kennedy had the right to pray in public at the 50-yard line after games in which his players competed, representing a public school.

1 posted on 03/17/2023 7:07:52 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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...the right of every American to practice and express their religious beliefs, as guaranteed by the First Amendment.

The homofascists will not be happy about this ruling.

Bake the Cake!

2 posted on 03/17/2023 7:28:10 AM PDT by Tommy Revolts
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9-0 decision from the Supreme Court really puts the nail in that coffin. If even the liberal hacks on the court thought this one through, what must the arguments from the other side looked like?


3 posted on 03/17/2023 7:30:28 AM PDT by wbarmy (Trying to do better.)
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“ Since the “Lemon Test” is dead and the Establishment Clause must be interpreted according to its historical intent, all the cases that relied on the Lemon test are no longer good law, including cases that struck down prayer, Ten Commandments, Nativity displays or other religious symbols, religious performances, religious speech and expression, rental of public school facilities for church services when other secular use is permitted, student aid programs, and much more.”


4 posted on 03/17/2023 7:39:19 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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When I went to Junior and Senior High School, it was at school campus that included both the Junior and Senior High schools, together (same principle, vice principle and deans & counselors, same body of classroooms, different schedules, different classes, different curriculum, same cafeteria, separate lunch areas, same boys and girls P.E./gymn coaches & facilities, separate Jr & Sr PE/Gymn class times). By the 9th grade the campus was overcrowded. But across one street was a Mormon church that rented its sunday school classrooms to our Jr/Sr High. I had one class in those classrooms. There was no big legal to do about it. There was also after school religious clubs that met on campus. Again, no legal big deal. In the latter two matters there was likely no big legal issue because no atheists/secular humanists protested about it.


5 posted on 03/17/2023 7:55:44 AM PDT by Wuli
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Once again conservatives celebrate over crumbs from the Supreme Court.


7 posted on 03/17/2023 8:08:24 AM PDT by nwrep
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Which resulted in the non-theistic Satanic temple seeking to fly their flag in parody. The Founders never foresaw the result of not clarifying the First Amendment as referring to formal theistic religions, while not forbidding affirmation of the same in general by government, as it does re non-theistic ideologies as non-binary humans.

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8 posted on 03/17/2023 6:10:16 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned+destitute sinner, trust Him who saves, be baptized + follow Him!)
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