article_snippet: I simply find it to be a problematic endorsement of religion by the secular state.  
article_snippet: I cannot support the government endorsing religion of any kind.
article_snippet: There was once a time when most people considered the United States to be a "Christian" country.  
article_snippet: However, that notion was never the intent of our founders and is not consistent with a pluralistic and enlightened nation.  
article_snippet: Because therein lies a theory behind the establishment clause.  
article_snippet: In Lemon v. Kurtzman, 403 U.S. 602 (1971), the U.S. Supreme Court gave we a three-part test to determine whether governmental conduct violates the Establishment Clause: (1) the governmental action must have a secular purpose, (2) the governmental action must have a principal or primary effect that neither advances nor inhibits religion, and (3) the governmental action may not foster an excessive governmental entanglement with religion.
article_snippet: This would send the right message -- that the government is not going to get involved in matters of religion, at all.