Here come the Christians:
Roanoke County supervisor ready to strike prayer policy after Supreme Court ruling - Roanoke County News - Mobile
For the rest of you, you'll get nothing, and like it, since you don't matter but you paid for it. It's Mob Rule for the Christian god. Y'all have fun now.
The key words are "for now"
Supreme Court misguided if it thinks public prayer isnÂ’t coercive
"There was no question that this constituted an endorsement of religion in a taxpayer-supported institution. There were a few Jews in my high school, including teachers, and I’ve often wondered how they felt at being coerced by groupthink and tacit school authority to acquiesce to this observance — an observance that they did not consent to and did not agree with religiously".
So, American society has backed off, a little. Schools typically reserve a moment of quiet contemplation or some other observance to allow believers to conduct their prayer business in private. Some towns, like Greece, New York, insist on continuing a prayer session before they open their city council sessions. It was GreeceÂ’s prayer observance that led to todayÂ’s court decision.
Writing for the 5-4 majority, Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote, ”The town of Greece does not violate the First Amendment by opening its meetings with prayer that comports with our tradition and does not coerce participation by nonadherents.”
Justice Antonin Scalia suggested that there’s no harm in a little “subtle” pressure on those who don’t choose to pray in public places at taxpayer expense.
ThatÂ’s tantamount to the administrators at my old high school reasoning that there was nothing coercive in having a daily prayer that ended with an invocation to Jesus. It was absolutely coercive. It was a way for Christians to impose their religion on non-Christians. And now the courtÂ’s affirmation of public prayer in government spaces is a way of imposing the notion of prayer on those who might not believe that a government meeting is the appropriate place for such an observance to be held. Just because the majority of people at a public meeting might believe itÂ’s appropriate doesnÂ’t mean that everyone accepts it as such.
Justice Elena Kagan (who is Jewish, even though that doesn’t matter) said in her dissent, “When the citizens of this country approach their government, they do so only as Americans, not as members of one faith or another. And that means that even in a partly legislative body, they should not confront government-sponsored worship that divides them along religious lines.”
note that the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty reacted similarly to Rabbi Saperstein: “While the Court ruled for the town under the historic tradition of ceremonial prayer for lawmakers, local governments can – and should – take steps to ensure that citizens are not forced into religious acts at a government meeting,” said K. Hollyn Hollman, the group’s general counsel. “It is hard to square a government-led religious practice in a local municipal meeting with the Constitution’s guarantee of equal rights of citizenship without regard to religion.”
Supreme Court misguided if it thinks public prayer isn?t coercive | Dallas Morning News
So we see the curtain has come off when the rightwing Christians cheer as it can now be for all to see they hate democracy an diversity .
