SCOTUS 5 rules that prayers at local board meetings are A-OK

[Bugsy McGurk]

No 1st Amendment violation there - nope. No establishment of religion.

Imagine if some local board starts its meetings with Muslim prayers.

;-)

 

[Dino]

No 1st Amendment violation there - nope. No establishment of religion.

Imagine if some local board starts its meetings with Muslim prayers.

;-)

Imagine if they did...and...???p

You don't think Americans are tolerant enough to handlle that? They are.
I think it would be most unamerican for the leaders of the community to not be able to open a meeting with a symbolic or patriotic statement.

 

[Bugsy McGurk]

Your delusions are getting worse.

Do you REALLY think yahoos would not object to opening public meetings with Muslim prayers?

Non-Muslims even freaked out when Muslims wanted to put a mosque 3 blocks from Ground Zero.

Get real.

 

[ElGringo]

Here's a novel idea...no prayers or religion at all injected into public functions? On second thought nah, that'll never work.

 

[Bugsy McGurk]

Here's a novel idea...no prayers or religion at all injected into public functions? On second thought nah, that'll never work.

That obviously makes sense.

So much sense that the SCOTUS 5 rejected it today.

 

[ElGringo]

Yeah, I've been on the wrong side of the USSC a lot over the last few years.

 

[Dino]

Your delusions are getting worse.

Do you REALLY think yahoos would not object to opening public meetings with Muslim prayers?

Non-Muslims even freaked out when Muslims wanted to put a mosque 3 blocks from Ground Zero.

Get real.

Blah blah blah...

Enough people have tried to foment outrage from good Americans. Guess what? They failed miserably.

After bringing Muslim men to Martinsville Speedway in Virginia to gauge the reaction of NASCAR fans, Dateline NBC won't have its cameras at Texas Motor Speedway this weekend.
In a statement released Thursday, NBC defended its reporting tactics, saying "there have been a lot of inaccurate comments" and that Dateline "had barely begun its reporting."
"Dateline is not planning a story about NASCAR," the statement said. "We are following up on a recent poll and other articles indicating an increase in anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States. We are curious about whether that is true. The NASCAR race at Martinsville was a stop we have made in our research on this story.
"There is nothing new about the technique of witnessing the experience of someone who might be discriminated against in a public setting."
NASCAR officials were angry after learning Dateline recruited Muslims to attend the DirecTV 500. NASCAR spokesman Ramsey Poston said the group walked around outside the track without any reaction from fans.
"It's outrageous that a news organization like NBC would seek to create the news instead of reporting the news," Poston said.

It's only a prayer....what are you so afraid of?

 

[Bugsy McGurk]

Blah blah blah...

Enough people have tried to foment outrage from good Americans. Guess what? They failed miserably.

After bringing Muslim men to Martinsville Speedway in Virginia to gauge the reaction of NASCAR fans, Dateline NBC won't have its cameras at Texas Motor Speedway this weekend.
In a statement released Thursday, NBC defended its reporting tactics, saying "there have been a lot of inaccurate comments" and that Dateline "had barely begun its reporting."
"Dateline is not planning a story about NASCAR," the statement said. "We are following up on a recent poll and other articles indicating an increase in anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States. We are curious about whether that is true. The NASCAR race at Martinsville was a stop we have made in our research on this story.
"There is nothing new about the technique of witnessing the experience of someone who might be discriminated against in a public setting."
NASCAR officials were angry after learning Dateline recruited Muslims to attend the DirecTV 500. NASCAR spokesman Ramsey Poston said the group walked around outside the track without any reaction from fans.
"It's outrageous that a news organization like NBC would seek to create the news instead of reporting the news," Poston said.

It's only a prayer....what are you so afraid of?

Yikes. Your GOP ADD is reaching crisis proportions.

 

[Dino]

Yikes. Your GOP ADD is reaching crisis proportions.

"Prayers are scary!!"

 

[Bugsy McGurk]

"Prayers are scary!!"

Scary? No.

Unconstitutional when read at public meetings? Yes.

Something that Christians could agree to only if Muslim prayers were read at the meetings.

 

[Dino]

Scary? No.

Unconstitutional when read at public meetings? Yes.

Something that Christians could agree to only if Muslim prayers were read at the meetings.

no, they're not. Thought that was made clear relatively recently.

And you'd like saying "Christians" are every bit as dense and intolerant as liberals. But they're not. Nor does intolerance determine the constitutionality of free speech issues.

 

[as seen on tv]

i'm sure i'm not the first person to correct you on this, but both the senate and house of representatives open each day with prayer. some of these are given by islamic guys.

you really should watch more tv, and read more newspapers.

 

[Barbella]

no, they're not. Thought that was made clear relatively recently.

And you'd like saying "Christians" are every bit as dense and intolerant as liberals. But they're not. Nor does intolerance determine the constitutionality of free speech issues.

I've sat through Baptist sermons, Catholic and Protestant ceremonies, and Jehovah's Witnesses lectures....I've read buddhist scriptures....

And at no time did I feel insulted. I'm happy to let people celebrate their faith, whatever it may be, as long as they don't insist that I have to dress a certain way, or I can't send my daughter to school, or that I can't leave the house without a male relative to escort me....or that my husband has the right to beat me....

 

[Dino]

I've sat through Baptist sermons, Catholic and Protestant ceremonies, and Jehovah's Witnesses lectures....I've read buddhist scriptures....

And at no time did I feel insulted. I'm happy to let people celebrate their faith, whatever it may be, as long as they don't insist that I have to dress a certain way, or I can't send my daughter to school, or that I can't leave the house without a male relative to escort me....or that my husband has the right to beat me....

And you are like most Americans, making it a wonderful place to live and worship. Far be it from liberals like Bugs to notice or appreciate that.

 

[Figjam]

I've sat through Baptist sermons, Catholic and Protestant ceremonies, and Jehovah's Witnesses lectures....I've read buddhist scriptures....

And at no time did I feel insulted. I'm happy to let people celebrate their faith, whatever it may be, as long as they don't insist that I have to dress a certain way, or I can't send my daughter to school, or that I can't leave the house without a male relative to escort me....or that my husband has the right to beat me....

...you attended those services under your own free will. No one forced it down your throat at a public meeting to discuss sewer budgeting.

...as for the rest, who is to say those other things you noted are NOT next up for discussion? The NRA somehow feels threatened by a gun registration DB thinking THAT is one step toward government confiscation of guns - why don't republicans feel the same about allowing prayer in public meetings?

 

[Bugsy McGurk]

no, they're not. Thought that was made clear relatively recently.

And you'd like saying "Christians" are every bit as dense and intolerant as liberals. But they're not. Nor does intolerance determine the constitutionality of free speech issues.

You're babbling.

And you know as well as I do that the SCOTUS 5 would have ruled the other way if the issue was whether Muslim prayers could be read at the local public meetings despite the objections of some people.

 

[Bugsy McGurk]

i'm sure i'm not the first person to correct you on this, but both the senate and house of representatives open each day with prayer. some of these are given by islamic guys.

you really should watch more tv, and read more newspapers.

Yes. And that does not have a thing to do with whether it's constitutional.

 

[Bugsy McGurk]

I've sat through Baptist sermons, Catholic and Protestant ceremonies, and Jehovah's Witnesses lectures....I've read buddhist scriptures....

And at no time did I feel insulted. I'm happy to let people celebrate their faith, whatever it may be, as long as they don't insist that I have to dress a certain way, or I can't send my daughter to school, or that I can't leave the house without a male relative to escort me....or that my husband has the right to beat me....

Let's all pretend that Pugs would be A-OK if a school opened its days with Muslim prayers.

;-)

 

[Dino]

You're babbling.

And you know as well as I do that the SCOTUS 5 would have ruled the other way if the issue was whether Muslim prayers could be read at the local public meetings despite the objections of some people.

Don't project your intolerance onto me. It's offensive.

 

[marvin martian]

No 1st Amendment violation there - nope. No establishment of religion.

Imagine if some local board starts its meetings with Muslim prayers.

;-)

Your anti-Christian OCD is always amusing, Fugs. There are several middle eastern countries where, as a matter of policy, they hate Christians almost as much as you do. You should look into emigrating...