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Hugo Black Quotes about Religion

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A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and to degrade religion.

A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and to degrade religion.

Hugo Black
Government, Religion, Liberty
Writing for the court, Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421, 1962.

We repeat and again reaffirm that neither a State nor the Federal Government can constitutionally force a person "to profess a belief or disbelief in any religion." Neither can constitutionally pass laws or impose requirements which aid all religions as against nonbelievers, and neither can aid those religions based on a belief in the existence of God as against those religions founded on different beliefs.

Hugo Black
Government, Law, Religion
"Torcaso v. Watkins, 367 U.S. 488". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. June 19, 1961.

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