On a more practical note, does anyone know who represented the parties in this Texas case, and whether one of them (or ideally, both together) might petition the court to replace these problematic seven words with an innocuous comparison that makes the same point, e.g., "Just as a student who is absent from school to observe a religious holiday and a student who is absent from school to attend a baseball game are not treated the same, neither are a halfway house operated for religious purposes and one that is not." ?
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