In fact, the sculpture may have been made for sale to foreigners rather than for religious use.
Then, in 1990, the Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendment did not protect the religious use of peyote by the Native American Church.
Yet if religious organisations use increasing amounts of public money to provide social services, this may mean that religion gets too entangled with politics, and vice versa.
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"I personally believe it's very important not to mix religion and politics - and we've seen examples in the modern world of what happens when religious zealots use religion for political purposes, " he says.
One more case from India: ornithologists who want to save three species of vulture (endangered because cattle carcasses are tainted by chemicals) see their best ally as the Parsees, who on religious grounds use vultures to dispose of human corpses.
Still, when exhorting troops before battle, or addressing fellow citizens of the republic, he could use religious rhetoric.
The court said the law did not violate the state constitution's guarantee of religious freedom or a ban on the use of state funds for religious institutions.
Islamic clerks issued a Fatua against him for his alleged use of religious characters in the book.
White House officials say safeguards would be in place to make sure the religious groups do not use the money to proselytize.
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This means that, whatever weapons the parties in America's religious arguments try to use, they do not usually include attempts to deny the other side's right to speak.
Brigitte Amiri, senior staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union, argued the business owners are trying to use a religious liberty claim to deny benefits to someone else.
Ms Cohen said it was particularly problematic because the e-mail, which went to private Jewish e-mails and communal groups, was sent just before the Jewish sabbath, during which religious Jews do not use electrical appliances.
Rarely do the journalists and campaign staffers that travel with McCain hear him freely use such religious language, and if the senator is obliged to chat about faith, he usually appears genuinely eager to move on to something else, which made his self-assured performance at Saddleback all the more striking.
John Ashcroft regarding religious liberty and civil rights -- specifically the rights of religious minorities and his willingness to use the Department of Justice to promote or advance his personal religious beliefs.
But while some of these later works have the suggestion of Christian themes, with the war's conclusion never again would Braque use such explicit religious symbols.
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Rather, we must set aside our international and partisan differences, and join in a global campaign to marginalize religious extremism and discredit the use of terror worldwide.
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Forswearing the use of painkillers for religious reasons is also a hard sell in secular societies.
We should embrace, not isolate, those religious leaders who are ready to use their faith to mobilise communities around peace.
Some refuse to use a bank for religious reasons: many Bangladeshis and Pakistanis do not have accounts because Islamic tenets conflict with modern banking practices.
Having said that, I do think that there are solid arguments that people on the left can use, drawing from religious texts, for example, to make their political point, much more so than they do now.
It urges him to use his authority to defend religious matters.
But it recognised some viewers "were unlikely to have expected Jeremy Paxman's typically robust and confrontational interviewing style to extend to the use of the terms 'religious hogwash' and 'stupid people'".
Between them, they shook up the art world in the 17th Century with their subtle use of colour and penchant for striking religious paintings.
The order will allow the mosque to complete the inspection process so it can use its building in time for the religious holiday of Ramadan, which starts at sunset Thursday, the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty said in a statement.
"It really annoys me that they should use a cross and try and turn this into a religious argument, " said Mr Alam.
But Koop, a devout Presbyterian, was confirmed after he told a Senate panel he would not use the surgeon general's post to promote his religious ideology.
And then take those memories you make and use them as fuel for some old-fashioned American religious tolerance, inclusiveness, and political honesty: with liberty and justice for all.
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They cannot use more than 16 vehicles in a constituency, display posters and banners on public property, use loudspeakers after midnight, or appeal to voters on religious issues.
Republicans will nonetheless try to use the churches, the clergy, and every other religious avenue they think will be available to them to paint the president's support for gay marriage as going against Latinos' traditional, religious and cultural beliefs.
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