Using religion for government purposes

[Volokh, Eugene]

            Whether or not that distinction is sound as an empirical matter – and, given the tradition of using religious invocations for ceremonial purposes, for national mourning, and other similar reasons, it’s hard to see all or most political use of religious talk as “crassly instrumental [and] low-political” – I take it that this is not a distinction that constitutional law can easily draw, no?

 

From: religionlaw-bounces at lists.ucla.edu [mailto:religionlaw-bounces at lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of Sanford Levinson
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May I respectfully suggest that one difference between Lincoln and perhaps) all of his successors is that he was a profoundly serious man who was not using religion for crassly instrumental low-political purposes.

Sandy

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