Americans United for Separation of Church and State "Still, as Greg Lipper, senior litigation counsel at Americans United for Separation of Church and State, pointed out, the law in this regard is actually quite clear. The 1977 Supreme Court decision, Wooley vs. Maynard, ruled that New Hampshire could not require its residents to display the slogan “Live free or die” on its license plates if they found it “repugnant to their moral, religious, and political beliefs.” “The separation of church and state benefits people who are religious as much as it benefits people who have no religion,” Lipper told Raw Story. Though Lipper said he wasn’t familiar enough with Houser’s artwork to know if it had religious meaning, “in this particular instance, it’s enough to say that this plaintiff believes that it does and the state can’t force people to display religious messages on things like license plates.” Ironically, Lipper pointed out, it’s often Christians that are accused of forcing their beliefs into state services, much like public meetings in North Carolina where officials conducted Christian prayers. “The next time it happens it might be a different religion that they don’t agree with,” Lipper said, such as Christians in a California school who are suing over yoga classes. “It’s interesting that Christians are now invoking the separation of church and state.”"
Posted on: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:45:17 +0000
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