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The strict separationist view holds that the EFFECTS OF BENEVOLENT NEUTRALITY
Establishment Clause, being meant to
protect the state from the church, the Benevolent neutrality gives room for
state's hostility towards religion allows no different kinds of accommodation: (1) those
interaction between the two. This approach which are constitutionally compelled, i.e.,
erects an absolute barrier to formal required by the Free Exercise Clause; and
interdependence of religion and state. (2) those which are discretionary or
Religious institutions could not receive aid, legislative, i.e., and (3) those not required
whether direct or indirect, from the state. by the Free Exercise Clause but nonetheless
Nor could the state adjust its secular permitted by the Establishment Clause.
Stated otherwise, using benevolent is permissible, and those where it is
neutrality as a standard could result to three prohibited. [Estrada v Escritor (2003)]
situations of accommodation: those where
accommodation is required, those where it