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Showing posts with label Religion Church and State. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Religion Church and State. Show all posts

Friday, May 09, 2014

The strange liberal argument that thin-skinned religious minorities should listen to sectarian prayer.

The strange liberal argument that thin-skinned religious minorities should listen to sectarian prayer.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2014/05/the_strange_liberal_argument_that_thin_skinned_religious_minorities_should.html?wpisrc=newsletter_jcr:content&mc_cid=32c24ff91c&mc_eid=b27361148d

Why are some liberals conceding that it's theirfault for objecting to legislative prayer? By  and 
Early reactions to the Supreme Court’s decision this week to uphold sectarian legislative prayers in Town of Greece v Galloway have beenmostly critical from the left. That is not surprising: One might expect the political response among pundits and academics to be as predictable as the 5–4 split between the justices. But it turns out that some liberals, including some prominent progressive thinkers and, for that matter, the Obama administration, are eithersanguine about or affirmatively happy with the decision. For example, Noah Feldman, a professor at Harvard Law School, has endorsed Justice Kennedy’s plurality opinion on the grounds that only government coercion should trigger a violation of the Establishment Clause. As long as the government does not force you to do or say anything religious, he says, and provided that it does not proselytize or denigrate other religions, the government can endorse whatever religious messages the majority prefers...
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2014/05/the_strange_liberal_argument_that_thin_skinned_religious_minorities_should.html?wpisrc=newsletter_jcr:content&mc_cid=32c24ff91c&mc_eid=b27361148d
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Monday, May 05, 2014

Supreme Court ruling supports Christian prayers at public meetings

Washington Post News Alert: Supreme Court ruling supports Christian prayers at public meetings

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/high-court-ruling-favors-prayer-council-meeting

The Supreme Court says prayers that open town council meetings do not violate the Constitution even if they routinely stress Christianity. The ruling is consistent with past decisions about prayer in public places. In 1983, the court upheld an opening prayer in the Nebraska legislature and said that prayer is part of the nation's fabric, not a violation of the First Amendment. 

Read more at: 
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/high-court-ruling-favors-prayer-council-meeting 


The New York Times is also carrying the story here: 

Monday, May 5, 2014 10:30 a.m.


Supreme Court Allows Opening Prayer at Town Board Meeting
The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that a town in upstate New York may begin its public meetings with a prayer from a “chaplain of the month.”
Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, writing for the majority in the 5-to-4 decision, said “ceremonial prayer is but a recognition that, since this nation was founded and until the present day, many Americans deem that their own existence must be understood by precepts far beyond that authority of government to alter or define.”
In dissent, Justice Elena Kagan said the town’s practices could not be reconciled “with the First Amendment’s promise that every citizen, irrespective of her religion, owns an equal share of her government.”
Town officials said that members of all faiths, and atheists, were welcome to give the opening prayer. In practice, the federal appeals court in New York said, almost all of the chaplains were Christian.

READ MORE  http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/06/nyregion/supreme-court-allows-prayers-at-town-meetings.html?emc=edit_na_20140505&nlid=45685287&_r=0 

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