After the First State of Yugoslavia was established, the question of religious practice and its role in society became the subject of a specific political debate when, in the spring of 1921, the Kingdom o f SHS Constituent Assembly discussed, among other things, the so-called Pupil Paragraph, i.e. proposal for a constitutional provision according to which religious representatives should not exploit their ecclesiastical service and cleric duties for political purposes. Slovene political parties expressed their views about this proposal in line with their fundamental conceptual and political grounds. The Slovenian Catholic People's Party (SLS) strongly opposed the introduction of Pulpit Paragraph. Such Paragraph would have interfered with the absolute right of the Church to govern its internal affairs independently. The SLS representatives also pointed out that issues relating to the Pulpit Paragraph had already been regulated by the encyclical of Benedict XV, entitled Humani generis redemptionem (1917), which prohibited priests to take part in any political activities in performing their duties. However, the two liberal parties - Yugoslav Democratic Party and the Independent Farmers' Party, which otherwise recognised religion as an integral part of human sentiments, spoke strongly in favour of the Pulpit Paragraph. In their view, exploiting religion for political purposes was something that would have to be prevented. The liberal Socialist People's Party was also against the exploiting religion for political purposes. For allthat in their opinion, the Pulpit Paragraph would not solve the above-mentioned issues and would only encourage cultural dispute. Likewise, the Pulpit Paragraph was the subject of different discussions in Marxist circles, which defended the concept of disestablishment of the church. The Yugoslav Social-Democratic Party supported the idea of introducing the Pulpit Paragraph, which was based on their belief that religion should not interfere with politics, whereas Slovenian communists expressed no opinion about its introduction at all.The Constituent Assembly supported the proposal of introducing the Pulpit Paragraph. Afterwards, the Pulpit Paragraph was included in the Vidovdan Constitution adopted on 28 June1921, which created a new challenge for ideological confrontations in the Slovene political milieu- a challenge which survived different legal orders in Slovenia and is present even in the 21st century.