Religious faith can be a powerful force, either for good or evil. When the U.S. Constitution was written, the country's political leaders were well aware of the many decades of religiously-motivated strife that had resulted in so many deaths throughout Europe. In order to avoid transplanting religious hatreds from Europe to America, they incorporated the Establishment Clause into the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. As interpreted by various courts, it requires a separation between church and state. This seems to be a beneficial relationship that has served the country well: Church affiliation and attendance in the U.S. are the highest of all industrialized nations.

The USA has relative peace among followers of different religions, and of no religion. The country has avoided the type of religiously-based conflicts, civil wars, crimes against humanity, and genocides wh

Church/state separation in the U.S. Constitution:

such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and

ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men,

Students should feel free to express their religion and their beliefs in homework, through art work, during class presentations, as long as it's relevant to the assignment. If students can distribute flyers or pamphlets that have nothing to do with the school, they can distribute religious flyers and pamphlets on the same basis. If students can wear T-shirts advertising sports teams, rock groups or politicians, they can also wear T-shirts that promote religion. If certain subjects or activities are objectionable to their students or their parents because of their religious beliefs, then schools may, and sometimes they must, excuse the students from those activities.

This was ratified by the States in 1791.

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