Congress shall...?

Question

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people to peaceably assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

Then how can our Indiana State Legislature allow "Choose Life" as the saying on our license plates even though it was vehimently apposed?

http://www.nuvo.net/archive/2006/06/07/bmv_approves_choose_life_license_plates.html

Answer 1

I believe it will be struck down by the courts, though more on free speech grounds than on the religion clauses.

There are two problems: 1) Indiana is apparently allowing only one side of a controversial topic to express its opinion on a license plate; 2) Indiana is using funds from the plate to support Church groups providing anti-abortion services.

Item 1 is a free speech violation. If the groups referred to in Item 2 were not church groups, the courts would probably allow it. If they are church groups, it is a very close call, like providing public funding for parochial schools. But I'd bet the courts would allow it, based on a (bogus) theroy that religion was not being promoted by the clinics that were funded.