Are you an atheist? Get mad at the US supreme court. Believer? You, too

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Are you an atheist? Get mad at the US supreme court. Believer? You, too
Government prayer will continue. But religious Americans might have more to fear from this week's decision than atheists
By Anthea Butler
theguardian.com, Wednesday 7 May 2014

Susan Galloway, who is Jewish, and Linda Stephens, an atheist, felt uncomfortable sitting through the predominately Christian prayers that opened every town meeting in Greece, New York. For years they lived through their discomfort. Then they asked that the town meetings start instead with non-sectarian prayers that did not explicitly reference specific religious ideas. Eventually, the town council told both women that they could stand in the hallway or stick their fingers in their ears.

Instead, they filed suit.

This week, the US supreme court ruled, 5-4, in favor of the town of Greece, and opened up a new battlefield in the culture wars. What Galloway and Stephens experienced will unfortunately continue to occur in many communities throughout the country – those who are part of a minority religious tradition in a particular locale should just "put up or shut up" and wait their turn...

...All Galloway and Stephens wanted was to have prayers that were non-sectarian – that did not refer to particular deities. What they got, in addition to hate mail and ridicule, was a supreme court that sided with a government entity's right to not take into account the religious beliefs (or lack thereof) espoused by the people it serves. Given the trend of Americans moving away from religion, that should bother everyone who has strong religious beliefs at least much as those who don't.... MORE at http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/07/us-supreme-court-government-prayer-religious-americans

[LostOne4Ever]

1. Don't worry

We are very mad at SCotUS.

[defacto7]

2. A United States gone mad...

with the SCOTUS's fascist 5, burning precedents laid down over 200 years, pissing on the will of the majority of US citizens, favoring the rantings of racists, oligarchs and the promoters of anti-science and dogma.

The US is in decline. The human race is devolving.