Sentence examples for secular legislative from inspiring English sources

The dissent concluded that the evidence was not sufficient to prove the absence of a secular legislative purpose.

First, the statute must have a secular legislative purpose; second, its principal or primary effect must be one that neither advances nor inhibits religion..

First, the [governmental policy] must have a secular legislative purpose; second, its principal or primary effect must be one that neither advances nor inhibits religion..

The first requirement of the Lemon test is that the challenged statute have a "secular legislative purpose". Lemon v. Kurtzman, supra, at 612.

That is to say that, to withstand the strictures of the Establishment Clause, there must be a secular legislative purpose and a primary effect that neither advances nor inhibits religion.

He explains why laws must have a secular legislative purpose, why old, but not new, ceremonial acknowledgments of religion are permitted, and why it is fair to give religion special treatment.

He voices alarm at the South's "conflating Scripture with secular knowledge and legislative process" and fears the Southern evangelical's "KKKristian" obsession with "End Times".

The group's new platform provides atheists and humanists with the resources needed to deliver secular invocations during legislative meetings, including an interactive map identifying local humanists qualified to give an invocation.

"We want to make it easier for anyone who wants to give a secular invocation so that legislative meetings can be nondiscriminatory".

Those demands are no longer Meretz's alone: Mr Barak himself, anxious to woo the large and mostly secular Russian-immigrant community, recently proposed a legislative programme designed to bring about a "secular revolution" in Israel, radically eroding the power of the rabbinate to adjudicate in matters of personal status and sabbath observance.

He did so in a congressional ceremony of secular civic pomp in a massive legislative building that, after all, harks back to ancient Rome.  .