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Sotomayor Sees ‘Radical Mistake’ in Letting Churches Compete for Playground Grants
cnsnews.com ^ | 6/26/17 | Terence P. Jeffrey

Posted on 06/26/2017 12:57:29 PM PDT by ColdOne

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the only justice to join Sotomayor in dissenting from the majority’s opinion in Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia v. Comer.

Writing for the court, Chief Justice John Roberts, joined in full by liberal Justice Elena Kagan, concluded that a state government could not categorically deny churches that have playgrounds from competing with other institutions in the state grant program.

“The Free Exercise Clause ‘protects religious observers against unequal treatment’ and subjects to the strictest scrutiny laws that target the religious for ‘special disabilities’ based on their religious status,” wrote Roberts. “Applying that basic principle, this court has repeatedly confirmed that denying a generally available benefit solely on account of religious identity imposes a penalty on the free exercise of religion that can be justified only by a state interest ‘of the highest order.’”

The grant program in question was run by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources. It argued that it was acting under a provision of the Missouri state constitution that prohibits any state money from going to any church, period.

That provision says:

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: churches; playgrounds; scotus
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1 posted on 06/26/2017 12:57:29 PM PDT by ColdOne
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To: ColdOne

Goofballs of a feather goof together.


2 posted on 06/26/2017 1:00:53 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them!)
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To: ColdOne

She is an Obama appointee, and therefore an idiot to whom no one should listen on matters of law or regarding anything else.


3 posted on 06/26/2017 1:01:20 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: ColdOne

Here is an issue I didn’t even know existed.


4 posted on 06/26/2017 1:02:58 PM PDT by xp38
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To: ColdOne
The problem is that the State Constitutions do not follow the direction of the Federal Constitution.

The 13 original states wrote up their constitutions prior to the Federal Constitution and the inclusion the Bill of Rights.

Missouri was not one of the original 13.

5 posted on 06/26/2017 1:04:05 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: ColdOne

Better get used to ending up on the short end of the stick ladies. The Kennedy swing is about to fall off the set and who knows what Buzzy will do, other than fall asleep.


6 posted on 06/26/2017 1:06:22 PM PDT by mazda77
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To: ColdOne

Not so wise after all........


7 posted on 06/26/2017 1:07:44 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: ColdOne

But the state certainly doesn’t mind spending Christians’ tax money to further its homosexual agenda, feminist agenda, climate change agenda etc.


8 posted on 06/26/2017 1:08:25 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: ColdOne

She’s a radical mistake. No experience, a racist, and an Obambi appointee. How sad that she’ll be there for years.


9 posted on 06/26/2017 1:09:09 PM PDT by laweeks
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To: ColdOne

If this is a wise Latino I would hate to see the opposite...


10 posted on 06/26/2017 1:09:28 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter
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To: ColdOne

Scalia had taken Kagan under his wing. His efforts may still be paying dividends.

‘Kagan Takes Up Hunting with Fellow Justice Scalia

http://www.myfoxdfw.com/dpps/news/kagan-takes-up-hunting-with-fellow-justice-scalia-dpgonc-20120404-kh_19031801 ;
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US Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan surprised a Wisconsin audience this week with news that she has recently taken to hunting with her ideological opposite, fellow justice Antonin Scalia. 

“He’s made a huntress out of me,” Kagan revealed at a Marquette law school panel in Milwaukee on Tuesday. 

The liberal justice revealed she and her ideological foe had shot quail and pheasant together and planned to hunt bigger game in the future. 

“He insists I’m going to shoot myself an antelope,” the New York City native said, adding that she had come to view hunting as “really good fun.”’


11 posted on 06/26/2017 1:12:38 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic wotk using Inernet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: ColdOne

I see ‘Radical Mistake’ of putting people on the Supreme Court to fill quotas.

There were several hundred more qualified for the Supreme Court.


12 posted on 06/26/2017 1:15:40 PM PDT by boycott
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To: ColdOne

Doesn’t sound like a very “wise latina” with a “compelling life story” to me.


13 posted on 06/26/2017 1:18:11 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The Swamp Strikes Back!)
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To: ColdOne

The radical mistake is the belief that the federal government has a say regarding local playgrounds in the first place.


15 posted on 06/26/2017 1:26:00 PM PDT by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician/Journalist. Some assembly required.)
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To: ColdOne

Soda Jerk and Darthbader-Ginsburg. Servants of the Dark Side.


16 posted on 06/26/2017 1:26:15 PM PDT by ZULU (DUMP THAT POS PAUL RYAN!! KIM FATTY the THIRD = Kim Jung Un)
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To: ColdOne

Sotomayor sees a radical mistake with this ruling?

Some people think that Justice Sotomayor is on the court due to a radical mistake by Obama.........


17 posted on 06/26/2017 1:26:33 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Fantasywriter

You may be correct.


18 posted on 06/26/2017 1:27:59 PM PDT by ColdOne ((I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Best Election Ever! “Laughing my #Ossoff)
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To: ColdOne

I see radical mistakes in electing a president who appointed such an affirmative action ignoramus to the Supreme Court.


19 posted on 06/26/2017 1:32:32 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative (Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not really out to get you.)
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To: Sacajaweau
The 13 original states wrote up their constitutions prior to the Federal Constitution and the inclusion the Bill of Rights.

Only two current State Constitutions in place predate the US Constitution. Massachusetts (1780) and New Hampshire (1784).

20 posted on 06/26/2017 1:36:05 PM PDT by IndispensableDestiny
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