Court Opinion

ID: 9517985
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 00:39:31.24981+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:26:38.952171
License: Public Domain

FLAHERTY, Justice,
concurring.
I concur in the result reached by the majority, but disavow the implication that 42 Pa.C.S. § 5902(b) does not apply to the circumstances here presented. The moral values which one might possess are one thing, but references to religious belief or religious affiliation are quite another. In this regard the trial judge was correct in my view. Founded by William Penn, the very name of this state is shouted as a symbol of religious freedom and separation of church and state. I fear opening the door to the evils which flow from it being otherwise.