"The state may not establish a ‘religion of secularism’ in the sense of affirmatively opposing or showing hostility to religion, thus ‘preferring those who believe in no religion over those who do believe.'"
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Justice Potter Stewart
(1915-1985) Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
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in his dissent of Abington Township, 1963
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The State should stay out of the religion business.
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