Supreme Court case on prayer shows too many nonbelievers have thin skins

Dallas News ^ | May 9, 2014 | By George Will

[Jim Robinson]

After the marshal on Monday spoke the traditional “God save the United States and this honorable court,” the Supreme Court ruled that the upstate New York town of Greece does not violate the First Amendment’s prohibition of “establishment of religion” by opening its board of supervisors’ meetings with a prayer. This ruling would not scandalize James Madison and other members of the First Congress, which drafted and sent to the states for ratification the First Amendment and the rest of the Bill of Rights. The Congress did this after hiring a chaplain.

Three decades have passed since the court last ruled on the matter of prayers during government meetings. In 1983, the court held:

“The opening of sessions of legislative and other deliberative public bodies with prayer is deeply embedded in the history and tradition of this country. From colonial times through the founding of the republic and ever since, the practice of legislative prayer has coexisted with the principles of disestablishment and religious freedom.”

Since then, however, many Americans have become more irritable and litigious, and less neighborly. Also, there are many more nonbelievers. And the court has made establishment clause jurisprudence more labyrinthine with nuances such as the “endorsement test”: What government behavior touching religion would a reasonable observer see as endorsing — or disapproving — a particular religion or religiosity generally?

Until 1999, Greece’s board usually opened its meetings with a moment of silence. Since then, it has invited local clergy, most of whom are Christians, to deliver prayers, most of which have had Christian content. The court has never held that legislative prayer must be nonsectarian. But the two plaintiffs against Greece argued that the predominance of Christian voices (there were others — Jewish, Baha’i and a Wiccan...

[Jim Robinson]

"Taking offense has become America’s national pastime; being theatrically offended supposedly signifies the exquisitely refined moral delicacy of people who feel entitled to pass through life without encountering ideas or practices that annoy them. As the number of nonbelievers grows — about 20 percent of Americans are religiously unaffiliated, as are one-third of adults under 30 — so does the itch to litigate believers into submission to secular sensibilities."

[Understand the stimulus]

its the Hollywood “bullysexuals”

[Jim Robinson]

I am extremely offended by public displays of the government approved, advocated and supported religions of Marxism, evolutionism, atheism, abortionism and homosexualism. Where do I go to sue?

[henkster]

If they were really atheists, why would they care about someone praying?

[SandRat]

Mee Too!!!!

[dragonblustar]

Today’s society is like,”I’m offended that you’re not offended by the offense that I’m offended by.”

[Understand the stimulus]

you and I are enemies of the bullysexual state...I have tried to invent a word that describes a large segment of those who label good honest caring patriotic men and women as the lowest form of humanity....I want to know who to sue too...but the courts are infected with supporting bullysexualism at the cost of our national culture, morals and norms...this is what Obama means when he says “transformation”

[Guenevere]

Why do ‘they’ hate God, if ‘they’ don’t believe there is a God???.

[MaxMax]

They lost and cannot stop themselves, and will not give up. Unless they have any other
grievance, the courts need to just hold a hearing then tell the Aggravators and Communists
to go pound sand! And stop wasting tax money on hoopla. We are a Christian nation and will
not be shut UP, or shut DOWN, or Watered down by scum sucking Faggot Satanists hell bound
on the theology of equality, because there is none. We win, you lose, Get Lost! History is on our side.

[Fester Chugabrew]

Two-edged Sword, meet thin skin.

[Monorprise]

Ill be honest I’m becoming increasingly offended by so called secularism, and I have always been greatly offended by open displaces of Sodomy. What reasonable man wouldn’t be offended by such grossly sinful and inappropriately discussing behavior in public?
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The point of the Federal Injustice system is not that people have the right not to be offended its that certain people whom they like have the right not to be offended by traditional acts and ways of life of certain other people whom they don’t so much like.

They care not a nickel for our sensibility or rights.

[Monorprise]

Its not God, the Federal Injustice system and their tyrannically corrupt appointees hate but we who believe and follow God rather than themselves.

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[Bigg Red]

Exactly.

[Biggirl]

Why don’t they simply take their ball and bat and go home.

[elcid1970]

“bullysexuals”

Nails it! Also known as the Gaystapo, Gay Mafia, etc.

Sick perverts who define themselves by their sick perversion.