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AMERICAN LEGION  v. AMERICAN HUMANIST ASSN. 

GINSBURG,  J., dissenting 

aware,  “some  of  them  from  bitter personal experience,” 
Engel,  370  U. S.,  at  429,  religion  is  “too  personal,  too 
sacred, too holy, to permit its ‘unhallowed perversion’ by a 
civil  magistrate,”  id.,  at  432  (quoting  Memorial  and Re-
monstrance).  The Establishment Clause, which preserves 
the  integrity  of  both  church  and  state,  guarantees  that 
“however . . . individuals worship, they will count as full 
and equal American citizens.”  Town of Greece, 572 U. S., 
at  615  (KAGAN,  J., dissenting).  “If the aim of the Estab-
lishment  Clause  is  genuinely  to  uncouple  government 
from church,” the Clause does “not permit . . . a display of 
th[e]  character”  of  Bladensburg’s  Peace  Cross.    Capitol 
Square Review and Advisory Bd. v. Pinette, 515 U. S. 753, 
817 (1995) (GINSBURG, J., dissenting).