But, by any reading of our cases, the conformity required of the student in this case was too high an exaction to withstand the test of the establishment clause.

When a state's appropriation imparts too generous a benefit to a particular religion, the establishment clause provides a pathway to dissent.

The case hinged on the school district's pedagogical interest in establishing the curriculum and legitimate concern with possible establishment clause violations.

Together, the free exercise clause and establishment clause are considered to accomplish a separation of church and state.

They determined that the establishment clause forbids their entering into an unconstitutional entanglement in a religious dispute.