Getting the Lemon Test Back to Original Meaning

Francis Beckwith has provided an excellent account of the development of the Lemon Test. I agree that it is an ahistorical and analytical test that was applied in an "ad-hoc, counter-intuitive" manner. He is also correct that if justices had attempted to remedy the ad-hoc problem by applying it rigorously, the test would have institutionalized "both a government preference for secularism as well as a hostility toward religion."