Neutrality to religion guarantees neutrality to those very values that issue from religion. As justice William O. Douglas said, if "in every and all respects there shall be a separation of church and state," then "the state and religion would be aliens to each other–hostile, suspicious and even unfriendly."
We cannot deny in our public schools that our principals and the spirit of our institutions all come from the Judeo-Christian tradition. That tradition and the American tradition are wedded. When we have disdain for our religious tradition, we have disdain for ourselves.
