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Florida Town Must Open Meeting With Satanic Prayer Or Violate Supreme Court Ruling

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http://crooksandliars.com/2014/05/florida-town-must-open-meeting-satanic

Given the recent US Supreme Court ruling (City of Greece, NY), I would like to open up a Session with a prayer to my god Satan. Kindly advise me how to seek approval for that.”

“To hold that invocations must be nonsectarian,” wrote Justice Kennedy, “would force the legislatures that sponsor prayers and the courts that are asked to decide these cases to act as supervisors and censors of religious speech, a rule that would involve government in religious matters to a far greater degree than is the case under the town’s current practice of neither editing or approving prayers in advance nor criticizing their content after the fact.”

In other words, prayer may glorify a particular god–including the Dark One.

We look forward to seeing Lord Lucifer uplifted in prayer in public meetings across the country.

Date: 2014-05-11 03:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hardblue.livejournal.com
Oh, say it's true, say it's true!

Though, I suspect he won't get his approval.

Date: 2014-05-11 04:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fizzyland.livejournal.com
But should they refuse, there's a basis for further challenge.

Date: 2014-05-11 04:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hardblue.livejournal.com
The courts might even hear the case in ten years or so,
and the Supreme Court won't listen to it at all, letting
the lower court decision to halt such heathenism stand.

YOU CANNOT FIGHT CITY HALL!!!

Date: 2014-05-11 11:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fizzyland.livejournal.com
No but you can annoy them using the same arguments to put your monuments on public property in Oklahoma:
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Edited Date: 2014-05-11 11:32 pm (UTC)

Date: 2014-05-11 04:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] oslo.livejournal.com
The "convenient conversion" cases are going to be easy to distinguish, I think.

Harder to fend off will be the earnest believers who will take the Supreme Court at its word. It may well lead to the elimination of opening prayers in comparable circumstances, as Christian-majority populations take the only constitutional option they have to prevent non-Christian prayers from being recited.

Date: 2014-05-12 12:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] spamwarrior.livejournal.com
If Christian populations find nothing wrong with expecting the minority to wait patiently and absent themselves mentally or otherwise from prayers they don't agree with, then the reverse should be equally acceptable.

Date: 2014-05-13 02:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] moonshaz.livejournal.com
Absolutely!

Date: 2014-05-12 04:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] brother-dour.livejournal.com
Apparently Florida learned nothing from Oklahoma.

Date: 2014-05-12 03:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] the-rukh.livejournal.com
Your statement is a sign of the endtimes.

Date: 2014-05-12 11:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] brother-dour.livejournal.com
I think it's funny how the Powers That Be in Oklahoma tried to fix a perceived problem and just made things more problematic for themselves.

Date: 2014-05-13 02:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] moonshaz.livejournal.com
Yes, it's truly hilarious!

Date: 2014-05-12 06:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cinnamontoast.livejournal.com
You're surprised by this?

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