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I was asking for the "Constitution" not case law.
Please quote what Constitutional text forbids "promoting" religion generally.

For me, citing a quote from the reliably wrong and incorrigible Justice Brennan on proper Constitutional law is about as convincing as a cite from Yasir Arafat on how to achieve mideast peace.

What stuck in my craw was "promote". IMHO part of the bogosity of Federal jurisprudence on establishment is this false idea that anything that remotely, indirectly or partially promotes religious sentiment is a bad thing. SORRY, that is *not* what the establishment clause is meant to forbid, and "promotion" does not generally deny other people freedom. Is it really pervasive, exclusionary and non-volutnary, or is the promotion open, non-exclusionary and more of an expression than a prosyltization?

A US Army general does more to "promote" a religious sect when he hires a Catholic chaplain that Judge Moore has done. IMHO your statement would deny the right of much that we do today! Quite dangerous and wrong!

It's why we've had these horrid rulings that make it so difficult for proper govt support to private schools that happen to have a religious component to them. Yet the Govt can fund exactly te same stuff (eg sending secular textbooks) for secular private schools. the net result is to really hamper *real choice* in education. Once again this becomes BIAS AGAIST RELIGIOUS EXPRESSION rather than any fairness.

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A US Army general does more to "promote" a religious sect when he hires a Catholic chaplain that Judge Moore has done.

The Army doesn't hire only Catholic chaplains. Roy should take that as a very broad hint of how he can save his display.

But he won't.