Question

Oklahoma enacts a law requiring all businesses in the state to donate 10 percent of their profits to Protestant churches that provide certain services to persons whose income is below the poverty level. Price-LoMart files a suit to block the law's enforcement.
The court would likely hold that this law violates:

a) no clause in the U.S. Constitution.
b) the establishment clause.
c) the free exercise clause.
d) the supremacy clause.

Answer 1

Answer:

b) the establishment clause.

Explanation:

The provisions of  First Amendment's Establishment Clause restricts the government from establishing any laws pertaining to religion. It does not allow the government to take actions in favor of any particular religion nor does it promote any kind of governmental preference of a particular religion over another religion.

It maintains that government should restrain itself from mediating into religious affairs and its decisions should not be based on religious grounds. Though this provisions clearly advocates governments to remain in distance from religion, there have been several violations in the past.

Here, the government of Oklahoma enacting a law requiring all businesses in the state to donate 10 percent of their profits to Protestant churches is a clear violation of the Establishment Clause.