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Thinking through the relationship of exemption to political establishment is worthwhile apart from the result in any given case, especially for those of us who are both religious believers and American citizens. 
It is past time to restore some semblance of order to the law of religion.
The Supreme Court has long channeled the views of a very particular sort of religious and elite class interest in its Establishment Clause jurisprudence concerning religious displays. Cases like American Legion v. American Humanist Association suggest that it is—gradually and haltingly, but nevertheless steadily—withdrawing from this field of cultural combat.