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Edited by New Radical: 5/5/2014 5:39:32 PM
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Supreme Court Upholds Town Prayer

[quote]The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that a town in upstate New York did not violate the Constitution by starting its public meetings with a prayer from a “chaplain of the month” who was almost always Christian. Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, writing for the majority in a 5-to-4 decision that divided the court’s more conservative members from its liberal ones, said the prayers were merely ceremonial. They were neither unduly sectarian nor likely to make members of other faiths feel unwelcome.[/quote] It is surely a coincidence that all of the members of the majority in this case were Catholic and all of non-Christians in the court were in the minority.
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  • How about the "chaplain of the month" be rotated throughout the various religions of the community? Let the Christians get it one meeting, Jews the next, Muslims the next, Hindus, etc. I mean, if these people really do care about religious freedom, surely they wouldn't mind handing the mic over every other meeting if this is just a ceremonial thing and their prayers don't offend members of other faiths.

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