Chaim Amalek says: “Supreme Court votes 5-4 to tolerate prayer in public settings, and all the Jews on the court reliably line up against the decision.”
If God had meant for the goyim to have their own countries, He would have given them the brains to defend them.
Most Jews in America have a reflexive anti-Christian impulse and I suspect they don’t like this court ruling.
Report: “Residents Susan Galloway, who is Jewish, and Linda Stephens, an atheist, filed the suit, saying the practice made them uncomfortable.”
Secular Jews (as opposed to Orthodox Jews) have often led the way in America in removing Christianity from the public square.
Susan Galloway, a Jewish resident of the Rochester satellite town Greece, and her friend Linda Stephens began legal proceedings some seven years ago after becoming increasingly uncomfortable with the consistently Christian prayers opening every town council meeting. Galloway and Stephens began attending meetings in an effort to save the local public access channel, Galloway told JTA in a 2013 interview.
Galloway told JTA, “They’re asking us to bow our heads, they’re asking us to join them in the Lord’s Prayer, they’re asking us to stand — all of this is in the name of Jesus Christ… This one guy went on about the resurrection. We have preachers who stand there with their hands in the air.”
However, the court said in 5-4 decision Monday that the content of the prayers is not critical as long as officials make a good-faith effort at inclusion.
Among the dissenters were Jewish judges Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan…
Americans United for Separation of Church and State was instrumental in bringing the case to court, and Galloway also received support from the Reform movement, the National Council of Jewish Women, the Anti-Defamation League and the American Jewish Committee, which filed friend-of-the-court briefs on her behalf.
USA TODAY: WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the centuries-old tradition of offering prayers at the start of government meetings, even if those prayers are overwhelmingly Christian.
The 5-4 decision in favor of the any-prayer-goes policy in the town of Greece, N.Y., avoided two alternatives that the justices clearly found abhorrent: having government leaders parse prayers for sectarian content, or outlawing them altogether.
It was written by Justice Anthony Kennedy, with the court’s conservatives agreeing and its liberals, led by Justice Elena Kagan, dissenting.
The long-awaited ruling following oral arguments in November was a victory for the the town, which was taken to court by two women who argued that a plethora of overtly Christian prayers at town board meetings violated their rights.
While the court had upheld the practice of legislative prayer, most recently in a 1983 case involving the Nebraska Legislature, the case of Town of Greece v. Galloway presented the justices with a new twist: mostly Christian clergy delivering frequently sectarian prayers before an audience that often includes average citizens with business to conduct.
The court’s ruling said the alternative – having the town board act as supervisors and censors of religious speech – would involve the government far more than Greece was doing by inviting any clergy to deliver the prayers.
“An insistence on non-sectarian or ecumenical prayer as a single, fixed standard is not consistent with the tradition of legislative prayer outlined in the court’s cases,” Kennedy said.
