The wall between church and state is properly maintained as long as the mail counter in a contract postal unit operated by a church is free of religious material, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled last week.
The circuit said that, while there was a violation of the Establishment Clause in the operation of a U.S. Postal Service contract facility by the Full Gospel Interdenominational Church in Manchester, Conn., the remedy is simply to remove the material and have “visual cues” that “distinguish the space operating as a postal facility from the space functioning as purely private property.”
