Article I, section
5
That all men have a natural and indefeasible right to
worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences; that no
human authority can control or interfere with the rights of conscience; that no
person shall, on account of his religious persuasion or belief, be rendered
ineligible to any public office or trust or profit in this state, be
disqualified from testifying or serving as a juror, or be molested in his person
or estate; but this section shall not be construed to excuse acts of
licentiousness, nor to justify practices inconsistent with the good order, peace
or safety of the state, or with the rights of others.
Article I, section
6
That no person can be compelled to erect, support or attend
any place or system of worship, or to maintain or support any priest, minister,
preacher or teacher of any sect, church, creed or denomination of religion; but
if any person shall voluntarily make a contract for any such object, he shall be
held to the performance of the same.
Article I, section
7
That no money shall ever be taken from the public treasury,
directly or indirectly, in aid of any church, sect or denomination of religion,
or in aid of any priest, preacher, minister or teacher thereof, as such; and
that no preference shall be given to nor any discrimination made against any
church, sect or creed of religion, or any form of religious faith or worship.
Article IX, section
8
Neither the general assembly, nor any county, city, town,
township, school district or other municipal corporation, shall ever make an
appropriation or pay from any public fund whatever, anything in aid of any
religious creed, church or sectarian purpose, or to help to support or sustain
any private or public school, academy, seminary, college, university, or other
institution of learning controlled by any religious creed, church or sectarian
denomination whatever; nor shall any grant or donation of personal property or
real estate ever be made by the state, or any county, city, town, or other
municipal corporation, for any religious creed, church, or sectarian purpose
whatever.
Article X, section
6
All property, real and personal, of the state, counties and
other political subdivisions, and nonprofit cemeteries, shall be exempt from
taxation; all personal property held as industrial inventories, including raw
materials, work in progress and finished work on hand, by manufacturers and
refiners, and all personal property held as goods, wares, merchandise, stock in
trade or inventory for resale by distributors, wholesalers, or retail merchants
or establishments shall be exempt from taxation; and all property, real and
personal, not held for private or corporate profit and used exclusively for
religious worship, for schools and colleges, for purposes purely charitable, or
for agricultural and horticultural societies may be exempted from taxation by
general law