For more than 40 years, courts have decided whether a certain action violates the principle of church/state separation by applying the Lemon Test. There are three parts to it:
1) The statute must not result in an “excessive government entanglement” with religious affairs.
2) The statute must not advance or inhibit religious practice
3) The statute must have a secular legislative purpose.
That’s it. It’s that simple. If any of those three prongs are violated, the statute is considered unconstituti...
Published on January 31, 2015 10:00