A test for gauging the constitutionality of religious activity in public schools:
1. The primary purpose must be secular.
2. The primary effect must not be to enhance or inhibit religion.
3. It must not foster an excessive entanglement between government and religion.
Sources: U.S. Supreme Court, Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971); Nebraska attorney Neal Stenberg
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