1.  Federal legislation attacking Mormon polygamy served as a ruse for completing the absorption of the Mormon religious state into the Union.

2.  Yet the irreligious Jinnah wanted two religious states, while the religious Gandhi would countenance only a united secular state.

3.  The militants see no contradiction in using violence to bring about a religious state.

4.  At present there is no indication of broad support for a religious state.

5.  In a religious state you do as told.

6.  Is Israel a secular democracy that happens to be Jewish or a religious state that happens to be a democracy?

7.  Sarajevo is not and is unlikely to become a religious Islamic state.

8.  They say that sinister forces are seeking to introduce religion into politics here, hoping ultimately to undermine the secular republic and turn Turkey into a religious state.

9.  Unlike Pakistan, which was founded as a religious state, modern India took form as a secular nation espousing coexistence among its various religious traditions.

10.  Hanafi has called for better social services for the poor and opposes the concept of a religious state.