This is inconvenient at best for a political system that would like for there to BE no individual. In the name of preventing exclusion, we are disallowing an entire belief system to participate. In case you haven't been watching, here is what is happening. States are being told by Federal Judges how to run their business. Of course, these decisions are not too terribly surprising considering that the judges turning the screws the tightest are Clinton-appointees, and Clinton attempted to invoke an Executive Order redefining Federalism by switching the direction of the arrows.
Maximum autonomy is retained for the local-level democracy.
Luckily, the slugs in Congress roused themselves from accepting PAC money and bouncing checks long enough to shoot this one down. For now, anyway. THAT one out. Okay, you can't mention God in class, so you have to do it after school. Oh, but you can't have a club on school grounds, because that would be state sponsorship of religion.