Separation of pro–life and state at the National Gallery of ARtMeghan Duke writing at First Things, On the Square: “I decided to visit the [National Gallery of Art] after attending the March for Life the day before . . . After searching my bag, the two guards at the Gallery told me, ‘You’re good to go in, but first you need to remove that pro-life pin.’ . . . The pin, they informed me, was a ‘religious symbol’ and a symbol of a particular political cause and it could not be worn inside a federal building . . . it was a violation of the First Amendment of the United States’ Constitution: The combination of me, wearing a pro-life pin, in a federal building was a violation of the separation of church and state.”
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