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Specificity is not required.PeterKing:
Can you or anyone explain to me how a sign saying, "The Churches of Oconomowoc Welcome You.", promotes a religion or establishes a religious mandate?
Laws as non-specific as mandating a "moment of silence" in schools have been shot down by the courts, merely because the intent was to foster prayer in schools.
That does not follow.If this rises to the level level of promotion/establishment, then a road sign giving directions or distance to a church, a cathedral or a temple must be verboten too.
Street signs pointing to a church don't indicate any sort of affiliation. Plus, usually such signs point to secular locations. There could be an issue if the only such signs were for religious buildings, but I don't know of any attempts to set up signs in such a selective manner.
That has been litigated. One standard applied in that case was the degree of public display; their view was that the motto was so infrequently displayed as to be trivial or weak in its effect. A big sign at the city line will not be eligible for that kind of exception, as it is clearly on public display, in big letters.And considering the money stamped by the US Mints and the bills printed by the Federal Reserve/Treasury are festooned with religious imagery and slogans, this aversion to being welcomed seems nonsensical.