The Importance Of The Establishment Clause

Amendment 1 of the Constitution states “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion” (US Constitution). This ideal is known as The Establishment Clause. The Clause itself epitomizes the Founding Fathers’ goal of creating a country free of all religious persecution. However, in the many recent years, the American society of today seems to have hit a wall in terms of the acceptance of all cultures and their customs. Each and every person in this country of America has their own customs and under the rights given to them by the Constitution, they have complete freedom to carry out their own customs, as long as they do not harm others. Over many years, the US Government has been forced to deal with many petitions and court cases involving various people and their own ethnic beliefs which have led to decisions and court orders declaring simple things such as crosses and even Halloween decorations taken down due to their apparently “offensive”
For example, in some counties around the nation, people have protested the use of holiday decorations within a classroom, such as Christmas and Halloween decorations. These two holidays have been cultural staples in America for over one hundred years at least. Except, due to America’s recent court orders forcing schools to withhold such decoration, the cultural acceptance of the public celebration of those holidays is becoming more about the cultural ramifications, rather than the true ideas behind the holidays themselves. By ordering the inability of celebrating holidays in school, more and more people are just accepting the fact that culture does not belong in school. That idea leads to more and more conflicts, which has lead to the growing sensitivity in American