TRDS 441 Hector Associates, LP v. Conshohocken ZHB

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that voluntary observance of prayer by students does not serve to free it from limitations of Establishment Clause
• recognizing that the “power, prestige and financial support of government” may create an “indirect coercive pressure” to conform in context of school prayer
• holding that the daily recitation of a short prayer in public schools is unconstitutional
• holding the recitation in school of a prayer composed by state officials a religious exercise in violation of the Establishment Clause
• stating that religion is “too personal, too sacred, too holy, to permit its ‘unhallowed perversion’ by a civil magistrate”
• explaining that Establishment Clause was introduced “in large part” to avoid systematic religious persecution of religious minorities experienced elsewhere

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).