[exmarine]

Show me in the 14th amendment where the judiciary has the power to make any new laws (e.g. forced busing, taking plaques down from courthouses, enforcing politically correct cultural norms). Show me - I'm from Missouri. Again, read the Free Exercise Clause over and over until you get it into your head that judges HAVE NO POWER to take away my right to pray anywhere or anytime I want, with whomever I want, and put up Christian symbols in a Courthouse in my community. This is a power grab on the lines of a POLIBURO and these judges should be impeached immediately.

[lugsoul]

They didn't make a new law. They are applying an existing law - The Establishment Clause of the 1st Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Whats really fun is the realization of knowing that guys like you are spiking your blood pressure as you're reading and opining - and are probably taking at least 10 years that you would be receiving medicare, medicaid and social security off the table. Thanks!

[lugsoul]

"Again, read the Free Exercise Clause over and over until you get it into your head that judges HAVE NO POWER to take away my right to pray anywhere or anytime I want, with whomever I want, and put up Christian symbols in a Courthouse in my community."

You seem to be misreading my posts, the 11th decision, or both. First - NOTHING in this decision affects your right to pray anywhere or anytime. NOTHING. Second - you rail against "separation of church and state" - that phrase is not even found in the opinion and is not a basis for the decision - the decision is based on the State giving favor to one religion over another - which the judicial officer involved ADMITS he is doing. THIRD - as I have said above, there is nothing in the 1st Amendment limiting YOUR right to hang symbols you like in the courthouse, as long as the courthouse will let you hang things there (and doesn't pick and choose what it will let one hang based upon a preference for one belief over another). Nothing in this opinion is prohibiting YOU from doing ANYTHING. What the opinion prohibits is the STATE choosing to display some religious symbols which it prefers to the exclusion of others which it does not. Plain and simple. None of the other "prohibitions" you raise are either addressed in the opinion or constitute the the law of the land.