"Nones" might not know all the right prayers, or when to sit down and stand up.
But at an abortion rights prayer breakfast at the Washington Hilton, God was everywhere, easily invoked by believers of various stripes.
Hindu council leaders said the court's verdict infringed on their right to prayer.
Few other causes associated with the religious right, whether prayer in school or gay marriage, resonate in the same way.
But in today's ruling, a three-judge panel rejected such alternatives, saying they failed to uphold the women's right to prayer at the shrine.
Friends say that on abortion, gay rights, school prayer and other culture-war issues, Reagan's sympathy for the religious right bumped up against his hands-off view of government, and against his reading of the public mood.
They are, she said, "uncomfortable with the anti-environmental, anti-abortion stance that supports rolling back civil rights, school prayer and the invasion-of-privacy provisions in the Patriot Act".
Why do people have the attitudes they do toward social issues such as welfare, abortion, immigration, gay rights, school prayer, and capital punishment?
Our correspondent says that many Israelis feel the security situation has been deteriorating, with the summer conflict in Gaza, the dispute over rights of prayer at a holy site in Jerusalem and continuing Jewish settlement in East Jerusalem all factors in a worsening atmosphere.
Cover image: Antifascist counter-protesters confront far-right Patriot Prayer members holding a freedom march in Portland, Ore., on June 3 , 2018
