Indeed, however the Courts didn't create a big problem as they have no choice but to be involved in the issue. It was the shallow weak mindedness of self-interest politicians 60 odd years ago who caused and created the problem, not the Courts.
The very fact that the Establishment clause had to exist in the first place to specifically address, restrict and contain religious belief by Constitutionally separating it from the state in law, is a strikingly powerful thing in itself and reason why the Court will inevitably be obliged to return regularly to what is an obvious constitutional whitewash.
As you will have noticed by now I do so appreciate the utter irony in the way the use on money etc of "In God We Trust" has so spectacularly backfired into God having to be stripped of its divinity and declared secular, along with the phrase itself having to lose all claim in law to connections with any religious or Christian heritage, just to keep the status quo. Gotta love America, as always, a land of contradictions.
Mandated diversity training is a contrast but not comparable unless you're considering the way apples compare to bananas. It is not a religious belief. If it is a belief at all then it is a political one only.
I agree right back at ya. "In God We Trust" is clearly religious. You say no one is being forced to do or say anything, to affirm any sort of belief or anything else by its use.
But no one trusts in something they don't believe in so may I suggest it is the state which is confirming and affirming and establishing religiousness on behalf of We The People, by declaring a trust in something religious that a large and growing minority of Americans would never endorse.
No government Congress state or politician is going to tell me what I do and do not have trust in. I suspect you feel the same.
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