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This Court has increasingly injected religion into the law, thereby weakening one of the founding principles of our democracy, the separation of church and state. On June 27, the Court’s conservative majority handed down Kennedy v Bremerton School District. There, Court overturned the trial court’s decision upholding the local school district’s concerns that Christian-infused speeches and prayer in a public-school activity could be considered coercive to students or a governmental endorsement of religion in violation of the First Amendment. More

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