The two halves of the religion clause, then, do not necessarily conflict.

There is much discussion about the meaning of the First Amendment's religion clause.

If any room exists between the two Religion Clauses, it must be here.

And that it seemed to me was the kind of problem the First Amendment's religion clauses seek to avoid.

What the Reagan administration was able to do was recover the original understanding of the religion clauses.

The writers believe that the problems surrounding the religion clauses can only be solved by first understanding the nature of the clauses.

Bringing the Church to account for how it disciplined its members was "precisely the type of entanglement that the religion clauses prohibit."

This is managed by the familiar distinction - implied in the First Amendment's religion clause - between the public and private spheres.

Rather, our energies should be channeled toward constructive solutions that will retain, undisturbed, the language of the religion clauses.