article_snippet.sent: " 'We conclude that the program is secular in purpose, does not have the primary effect of advancing or inhibiting religion and does not excessively entangle the school district in religion. '
article_snippet.sent: the program does not violate our state constitution.'
article_snippet.sent: The First Amendment bans school-sponsored religious promotion and prayer.
article_snippet.sent: Attorney Dean Broyles said: '4th District Court of Appeal in San Diego in the past 50 years has allowed public school officials to lead children in formal religious rituals like the Hindu liturgy of praying to, bowing to, and worshipping the sun god.'
article_snippet.sent: A school distort lawyer said there were no rituals occurring in the classroom and no one was worshipping the sun or leading Hindu rites.