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... Neither Congress nor a state shall make a "law" which establishes "religion" or requires citizens to take an oath. ... The California law and Public Law 396 of 1954, therefore, are doubly wrong because, as currently written (since 1954), they include, not only allegiance to a promise, but to an establishment of religion through an official recognition of "God" by law, and become, legally and in reality, a religion test, in violation of the Constitution (Art. ... Any suggestion that "God" has nothing to do with "religion" is, on its face, ridiculous and absurd. ... " On the other hand, dissenting Judge Fernandez would have us believe the danger resulting from any constitutional violation is "de minimis" and "picayune," and he revises the essence of the Establishment Clause in terms of "a" religion or "a" theocracy. ... It is "religion" which is not to be established by law or Congress, and "religion" is the only word which makes sense out of "thereof" in the Free Exercise Clause. Making religion laws is not the business of government.
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