Practice question
A city provides a neutral public service to all qualifying residents, including members of several religions. The stipulated service has a legitimate secular purpose, no worship condition and no aim to sponsor a denomination. An objector insists that religious recipients alone prove establishment. Which is sound under Aglipay’s principle?
- Religious citizens must be excluded from every secular public service.
- Incidental benefit to religious persons alone does not establish that the secular service sponsors religion.
- Any public service automatically creates an official faith.
- The city must require conversion before providing it.
- A secular purpose can never be relevant.
Legal references
- Aglipay v. Ruiz, G.R. No. L-45459, March 13, 1937, main decision: https://www.chanrobles.com/scdecisions/jurisprudence1937/mar1937/gr_l-45459_1937.php
- 1987 Constitution: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/3/353 Article III, Section 5.
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