But this case seems to me to be much closer to Lamb's Chapel than to Full Gospel Tabernacle . This distinction lacks traction, because Christ is also the central and animating spirit in the viewpoint expressed in the Lamb's Chapel films. Moriches Union Free Sch. I see no basis for saying that the message of the Good News Club has religious content and that the message of the movie is no more than a religious viewpoint on a secular subject. The distinction between content discrimination and viewpoint discrimination is elusive and subtle.
Viewpoint discrimination is . . .
And, it must be acknowledged, the distinction is not a precise one. The distinction is especially slippery where the viewpoint in question is religious, in part because the sectarian religious perspective will tend to look to the deity for answers to moral questions. The idea that moral values take their shape and force from God seems to me to be a viewpoint for the consideration of moral questions. Religion may be a vast area of inquiry, but it also provides . . . Although the religious viewpoint thus has the tendency to overwhelm the secularity of a subject matter, this transformative, goal-directed tendency of religious viewpoints does not justify a preference for other viewpoints.