Neutrality to religion guarantees neutrality to those very values that issue from religion. As justice William O. Douglas said, if "in every and all respects there shall be a separation of church and state," then "the state and religion would be aliens to each other--hostile, suspicious and even unfriendly."

We cannot deny in our public schools that our principals and the spirit of our institutions all come from the Judeo-Christian tradition. That tradition and the American tradition are wedded. When we have disdain for our religious tradition, we have disdain for ourselves.