{"id":2539,"date":"2014-05-05T11:05:06","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T11:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2539"},"modified":"2025-09-28T01:21:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T01:21:21","slug":"5-4-decision-supreme-court-says-prayers-can-be-ok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2539","title":{"rendered":"5-4 decision; Supreme Court says prayers can be OK."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2014\/may\/5\/supreme-court-ruling-favors-prayer-council-meeting\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"\">Supreme Court ruling favors prayer at council meeting<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for the majority, said the prayers are ceremonial and in keeping with the nation\u2019s traditions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cThe inclusion of a brief, ceremonial prayer as part of a larger exercise in civic recognition suggests that its purpose and effect are to acknowledge religious leaders and the institutions they represent, rather than to exclude or coerce nonbelievers,\u201d Kennedy said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Justice Elena Kagan, in a dissent for the court\u2019s four liberal justices, said the case differs significantly from the 1983 decision because \u201cGreece\u2019s town meetings involve participation by ordinary citizens, and the invocations given \u2014 directly to those citizens \u2014 were predominantly sectarian in content.\u201d<\/p>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court ruling favors prayer at council meeting Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for the majority, said the prayers are ceremonial and in keeping with the nation\u2019s traditions. \u201cThe inclusion of a brief, ceremonial prayer as part of a larger exercise in civic recognition suggests that its purpose and effect are to acknowledge religious leaders and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5184,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2539\/revisions\/5184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}