Posted on 06/24/2007 9:29:59 PM PDT by gpapa
Forty-five years ago today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the reciting of state-sponsored prayers in government schools – a matter that should have been left in the hands of the states – was unconstitutional.
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Oh please. This is stretching credulity beyond the breaking point. It's unlikely in the extreme that a high degree Mason and Supreme Court Justice is capable of such a "misunderstanding."
It was definately an agenda. I read somewhere that none of the justices on that court had ever served in a judicial capacity before.
bttt
not restricted to a particular religious denomination; "a nondenominational church"
A non-denominational church (usually Christian) is a religious organization which does not necessarily align its mission and teachings to an established denomination.
This ruling could not have been made without the earlier 1925 Taft Court ruling that established the Incorporation Doctrine used to effectively extended the prohibitions placed on Congress in the First Amendment to all states.
In effect the Taft Court decision changed the first word of the First Amendment from CONGRESS to GOVERNMENT. The basis for the Taft Court decision was the Fourteenth Amendment.
According to Jewish World Review, ten years ago today:
“* 1997, the Supreme Court struck down the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, designed to limit government’s ability to regulate religious practices.”
So, apparently, justices feel not only can religion NOT tell government anything, but government MUST tell religion everything.
A Christian prayer would be denominational to at least that degree.
How so?
It would be Christian. If you want goverment schools schools to sanction prayers specific to one religion then fine. I disagree.
In America? Yup.
If you want goverment schools schools to sanction prayers specific to one religion then fine. I disagree.
You can disagree. I have no problem with that. But prayer in school was the norm until 1947. The Founding Fathers had no reservations.
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