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Quotation from Abington School District v. Schempp by Supreme Court of the United States
“But untutored devotion to the concept of neutrality can lead to invocation or approval of results which partake not simply of that noninterference and noninvolvement with the religious which the Constitution commands, but of a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious.”
Abington School District v. Schempp, Concurrence of Justice Goldberg (U.S. Reports text (Wikisource))
Justice Goldberg, joined by Justice Harlan, agrees with the result but warns against reading neutrality as hostility.
Citation: "But untutored devotion to the concept of neutrality can lead to invocation or approval of results which partake not simply of that noninterference and noninvolvement with the religious which the Constitution commands, but of a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious." — Supreme Court of the United States, Abington School District v. Schempp, Concurrence of Justice Goldberg (U.S. Reports text (Wikisource)). (id abington-school-district-v-schempp-q4)
Portrait: Official portrait of Associate Justice Tom C. Clark, Supreme Court of the United States (cropped), Unknown photographer, Public domain.
