Of necessity, both elected and appointed agents of the Judicial branch of American government (along with those of the Legislative and Executive branches) - including police and sheriffs and marshals - have to deal with the phenomenon of religion, because the First Amendment of the United States Constitution obviously mentions the word 'religion' within the Non-Establishment and Non-Prohibition clauses of that Amendment.

Realizing that a civilian private citizen conveying this fact (along with information to follow) to a military law-enforcement official of the United States government . . . and the officer receiving such from that private citizen . . . involves (on the part of both) free expression and response within the scope of both the Non-Establishment clause and the Non-Prohibition clauses of that religion-oriented First Amendment.

It is interesting that Pontius Pilate, the Roman-government governor mentioned within the New Testament of the sacred-66-books Judeo-Christian (Old-and-New-Testaments) Holy Bible, expressed to Jesus Christ (upon being forced, by circumstance, to encounter Him) TWO concerns typical of all government officials of practically every relatively-stable and rather-significant form of government:

(1) Pilate's question to Jesus: "Are you then a king?" was a query of (among other things) trying to ascertain if Jesus was a conspiratorial leader of some insurrectionist political or other anarchistic movement of an anti-Roman-government nature intending to treasonously topple Caesar, and

(2) Pilate's question and statement to those who accused Jesus of "Why, what evil has He done? I find no fault and nothing wrong with this man" revealed Pilate's concern of probing whether Jesus was a law-breaking criminal who had in any way(s) violated any legal statutes established by Roman government which then would understandably have required conviction, fines or imprisonment, or even execution for serious-enough offenses AND his logical and justifiable conclusion that Jesus had (rather patriotically-toward-Rome) broken no Roman law worthy of civil or criminal punishment.

Even though, according to the New-Testament historical record of the Holy Bible, the 'render-to-Caesar-what-belongs-to-Caesar'-advocating, truly-and-legally-innocent Jesus Christ was ILLEGALLY (because of duress from jealous disbelieving jewish leaders) taken into custody and even crucified by soldiers of the Roman government of His time, as also Saint Paul was illegally (in a sense) incarcerated (at the instigation of similar nefarious sources of animosity) in protective custody by Roman-government soldiers . . . both THE Master-Jew Jesus and another master-Jew Paul said very little (if anything) against essentially-pluralistic Roman government in their diplomatic encounters and dialogues with them, and even when away and apart from them.

Perhaps that is partly why a future Roman emporer beyond their lifetimes Christianized Roman government for a while into the Holy Roman Empire under the auspices of the Christianity-oriented Roman Catholic Church, AND why Roman government soldiers (in 70 A.D.) decimated that Jerusalem containing those types of agitating and adversarial "jews" who caused both Jesus and Paul such non-deserved and unlawful holocaust-like persecution (offspring of those trouble-causing, disturbing-the-peace, riot-inciting "jews" who had shouted: 'We have no king but Caesar').

Much chatter has recently been exchanged about tax reform, restructuring entitlements, reducing the national deficit, increasing [monetary] revenue coming in to the government by both cutting spending concerning waste and raising taxes and/or changing tax rates for "the rich" and "the middle class," and so on.

What should be done is for city clerks throughout America - coast to coast - to (by U.S Postal Service mailing) inform each house-owning or apartment-renting resident within the jurisdiction of each respective city, to have the option of coming in with a sacred-66-books Revised Standard Version Holy Bible [without Apocrypha] OR a New American Standard Version Holy Bible, PLUS a King James Version or Wesley-New-Testament Bible, then presenting those possessions of theirs to the city clerk to receive a Tax Exemption Card which will thereafter exempt such cardholders from ever being obligated to pay any property taxes and any city utility fees, in addition to automatically doubling the assessment value of their house (if such is owned) or halving their monthly rent (for apartment dwellers) . . . on the grounds of:

Ezra 4:1 Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the returned exiles were building a temple to the LORD, the God of Israel,
2 they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of fathers' houses and said to them, "Let us build with you; for we worship your God as you do, and we have been sacrificing to him ever since the days of Esarhaddon king of Assyria who brought us here."
3 But Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and the rest of the heads of fathers' houses in Israel said to them, "You have nothing to do with us in building a house to our God; but we alone will build to the LORD, the God of Israel, as King Cyrus the king of Persia has commanded us."
4 Then the people of the land discouraged the people of Judah, and made them afraid to build,
5 and hired counselors against them to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.
6 And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, they wrote an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.
7 And in the days of Artaxerxes, Bishlam and Mithredath and Tabeel and the rest of their associates wrote to Artaxerxes king of Persia; the letter was written in Syriac and translated.
8 Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king as follows:
9 then wrote Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their associates, the judges, the governors, the officials, the Persians, the men of Erech, the Babylonians, the men of Susa, that is, the Elamites,
10 and the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Osnappar deported and settled in the cities of Samaria and in the rest of the province Beyond the River, and now
11 this is a copy of the letter that they sent: "To Artaxerxes the king: Your servants, the men of the province Beyond the River, send greeting. And now
12 be it known to the king that the Jews who came up from you to us have gone to Jerusalem. They are rebuilding that rebellious and wicked city; they are finishing the walls and repairing the foundations.
13 Now be it known to the king that, if this city is rebuilt and the walls finished, they will not pay tribute, custom, or toll, and the royal revenue will be impaired.
14 Now because we eat the salt of the palace and it is not fitting for us to witness the king's dishonor, therefore we send and inform the king,
15 in order that search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers. You will find in the book of the records and learn that this city is a rebellious city, hurtful to kings and provinces, and that sedition was stirred up in it from of old. That was why this city was laid waste.
16 We make known to the king that, if this city is rebuilt and its walls finished, you will then have no possession in the province Beyond the River."
17 The king sent an answer: "To Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe and the rest of their associates who live in Samaria and in the rest of the province Beyond the River, greeting. And now
18 the letter which you sent to us has been plainly read before me.
19 And I made a decree, and search has been made, and it has been found that this city from of old has risen against kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made in it.
20 And mighty kings have been over Jerusalem, who ruled over the whole province Beyond the River, to whom tribute, custom, and toll were paid.
21 Therefore make a decree that these men be made to cease, and that this city be not rebuilt, until a decree is made by me.
22 And take care not to be slack in this matter; why should damage grow to the hurt of the king?"
23 Then, when the copy of King Artaxerxes' letter was read before Rehum and Shimshai the scribe and their associates, they went in haste to the Jews at Jerusalem and by force and power made them cease.
24 Then the work on the house of God which is in Jerusalem stopped; and it ceased until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.

Ezra 5:1 Now the prophets, Haggai and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews who were in Judah and Jerusalem, in the name of the God of Israel who was over them.
2 Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua the son of Jozadak arose and began to rebuild the house of God which is in Jerusalem; and with them were the prophets of God, helping them.
3 At the same time Tattenai the governor of the province Beyond the River and Shetharbozenai and their associates came to them and spoke to them thus, "Who gave you a decree to build this house and to finish this structure?"
4 They also asked them this, "What are the names of the men who are building this building?"
5 But the eye of their God was upon the elders of the Jews, and they did not stop them till a report should reach Darius and then answer be returned by letter concerning it.
6 The copy of the letter which Tattenai the governor of the province Beyond the River and Shetharbozenai and his associates the governors who were in the province Beyond the River sent to Darius the king;
7 they sent him a report, in which was written as follows: "To Darius the king, all peace.
8 Be it known to the king that we went to the province of Judah, to the house of the great God. It is being built with huge stones, and timber is laid in the walls; this work goes on diligently and prospers in their hands.
9 Then we asked those elders and spoke to them thus, 'Who gave you a decree to build this house and to finish this structure?'
10 We also asked them their names, for your information, that we might write down the names of the men at their head.
11 And this was their reply to us: 'We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are rebuilding the house that was built many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and finished.
12 But because our fathers had angered the God of heaven, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house and carried away the people to Babylonia.
13 However in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the king made a decree that this house of God should be rebuilt.
14 And the gold and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple that was in Jerusalem and brought into the temple of Babylon, these Cyrus the king took out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered to one whose name was Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor;
15 and he said to him, "Take these vessels, go and put them in the temple which is in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be rebuilt on its site."
16 Then this Sheshbazzar came and laid the foundations of the house of God which is in Jerusalem; and from that time until now it has been in building, and it is not yet finished.'
17 Therefore, if it seem good to the king, let search be made in the royal archives there in Babylon, to see whether a decree was issued by Cyrus the king for the rebuilding of this house of God in Jerusalem. And let the king send us his pleasure in this matter."

Ezra 6:1 Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in Babylonia, in the house of the archives where the documents were stored.
2 And in Ecbatana, the capital which is in the province of Media, a scroll was found on which this was written: "A record.
3 In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king issued a decree: Concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, let the house be rebuilt, the place where sacrifices are offered and burnt offerings are brought; its height shall be sixty cubits and its breadth sixty cubits,
4 with three courses of great stones and one course of timber; let the cost be paid from the royal treasury.
5 And also let the gold and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that is in Jerusalem and brought to Babylon, be restored and brought back to the temple which is in Jerusalem, each to its place; you shall put them in the house of God."
6 "Now therefore, Tattenai, governor of the province Beyond the River, Shetharbozenai, and your associates the governors who are in the province Beyond the River, keep away;
7 let the work on this house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews rebuild this house of God on its site.
8 Moreover I make a decree regarding what you shall do for these elders of the Jews for the rebuilding of this house of God; the cost is to be paid to these men in full and without delay from the royal revenue, the tribute of the province from Beyond the River.
9 And whatever is needed: young bulls, rams, or sheep for burnt offerings to the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, or oil, as the priests at Jerusalem require -- let that be given to them day by day without fail,
10 that they may offer pleasing sacrifices to the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king and his sons.
11 Also I make a decree that if any one alters this edict, a beam shall be pulled out of his house, and he shall be impaled upon it, and his house shall be made a dunghill.
12 May the God who has caused his name to dwell there overthrow any king or people that shall put forth a hand to alter this, or to destroy this house of God which is in Jerusalem. I Darius make a decree; let it be done with all diligence."
13 Then, according to the word sent by Darius the king, Tattenai, the governor of the province Beyond the River, Shetharbozenai, and their associates did with all diligence what Darius the king had ordered.
14 And the elders of the Jews built and prospered, through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. They finished their building by command of the God of Israel and by decree of Cyrus and Darius and Artaxerxes king of Persia;
15 and this house was finished on the third day of the month of Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.
16 And the people of Israel, the priests and the Levites, and the rest of the returned exiles, celebrated the dedication of this house of God with joy.

Ezra 7: 11 This is a copy of the letter which King Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest, the scribe, learned in matters of the commandments of the LORD and his statutes for Israel:
12 "Artaxerxes, king of kings, to Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven. And now
13 I make a decree that any one of the people of Israel or their priests or Levites in my kingdom, who freely offers to go to Jerusalem, may go with you.
14 For you are sent by the king and his seven counselors to make inquiries about Judah and Jerusalem according to the law of your God, which is in your hand,
15 and also to convey the silver and gold which the king and his counselors have freely offered to the God of Israel, whose dwelling is in Jerusalem,
16 with all the silver and gold which you shall find in the whole province of Babylonia, and with the freewill offerings of the people and the priests, vowed willingly for the house of their God which is in Jerusalem.
17 With this money, then, you shall with all diligence buy bulls, rams, and lambs, with their cereal offerings and their drink offerings, and you shall offer them upon the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem.
18 Whatever seems good to you and your brethren to do with the rest of the silver and gold, you may do, according to the will of your God.
19 The vessels that have been given you for the service of the house of your God, you shall deliver before the God of Jerusalem.
20 And whatever else is required for the house of your God, which you have occasion to provide, you may provide it out of the king's treasury.
21 "And I, Artaxerxes the king, make a decree to all the treasurers in the province Beyond the River: Whatever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, requires of you, be it done with all diligence,
22 up to a hundred talents of silver, a hundred cors of wheat, a hundred baths of wine, a hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.
23 Whatever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be done in full for the house of the God of heaven, lest his wrath be against the realm of the king and his sons.
24 We also notify you that it shall not be lawful to impose tribute, custom, or toll upon any one of the priests, the Levites, the singers, the doorkeepers, the temple servants, or other servants of this house of God.
25 "And you, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God which is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges who may judge all the people in the province Beyond the River, all such as know the laws of your God; and those who do not know them, you shall teach.
26 Whoever will not obey the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be strictly executed upon him, whether for death or for banishment or for confiscation of his goods or for imprisonment."