The court found that such an accommodation "inescapably conveys a message of governmental endorsement of religion."

The man is Michael Newdow, the same man who single-handedly succeeded in removing God from the Pledge of Allegiance and who now objects to Congress's use of chaplains, because he sees it as governmental endorsement of religion.

The Jewish War Veterans of the U.S.A. contended in its suit that the wooden cross on a prominent point at the Marine base violated the Constitution's ban on governmental endorsement of a particular religion.

That ruling had deemed the district unconstitutional because it "inescapably conveys a message of governmental endorsement of religion."

David Silverman (born August 13, 1966) is the current president of the American Atheists, a non-profit organization that supports the rights of atheists and the removal of expressions of religion in public when possibly interpretable as governmental endorsement.

Feldman's proposal to permit symbolic governmental endorsements of religion fails to consider the power of symbols.

Keep in mind that licensing does not equal governmental endorsement of the charity.

Writing for the majority, Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote, "The goal of avoiding governmental endorsement [of religion] does not require eradication of all religious symbols in the public realm".

"The primary effect of such an extensive effort to accommodate the desire to insulate the Satmarer Hasidic students inescapably conveys a message of governmental endorsement of religion," he wrote.

The submission, however, was not accompanied by any governmental endorsement or comment, bar the statement that Mendès-France did not regard it necessary to resign if the motion was defeated.