Sentence examples for Secular purpose from inspiring English sources

The Coast Guard ships were given to Canvasback for a secular purpose, providing medical services.

It recruits him to secular purpose and literally "takes the Lord's name in vain".

A district court affirmed the obvious: Honoring the war dead is a secular purpose.

First, the legislature must have adopted the law with a secular purpose.

But the Establishment Clause requires more than that legislation have a secular purpose.

If no valid secular purpose can be identified, then the statute violates the Establishment Clause.

Mr. McMaster said in his brief that the ruling ignored the "overarching secular purpose" of the prayer.

Giving thanks for God's bounty, the show has a secular purpose, too: to teach children about preserving nature.

Where a governmental body "expresses a plausible secular purpose" for an enactment, "courts should generally defer to that stated intent".

The Supreme Court thus found that the statute served a secular purpose and did not violate the establishment clause.

The Louisiana Legislature explicitly set forth its secular purpose [p627] ("protecting academic freedom") in the very text of the Act.