Posted on 05/09/2014 12:38:37 PM PDT by 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 Amendments 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, Greeces 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, Bahai and a Wiccan...
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its the Hollywood “bullysexuals”
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?
If they were really atheists, why would they care about someone praying?
Mee Too!!!!
Today’s society is like,”I’m offended that you’re not offended by the offense that I’m offended by.”
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”
Why do ‘they’ hate God, if ‘they’ don’t believe there is a God???.
Two-edged Sword, meet thin skin.
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.
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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Exactly.
Why don’t they simply take their ball and bat and go home.
“bullysexuals”
Nails it! Also known as the Gaystapo, Gay Mafia, etc.
Sick perverts who define themselves by their sick perversion.
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