The supreme court gets it wrong…again…

Well…I am continually exasperated by the blatant, christian leaning rulings that have come out of this supreme court…and the latest one, allowing all government meetings to be opened by christian prayers…without any consideration for those of us who are atheists, or for the first amendment for that matter…a very simple amendment that says that government will do nothing to establish a national religion or to interfere with the practice of religion. But, allowing christian prayers to the exclusion of all others IS establishing a preference for one religion over all others…something that the founders specifically warned against and something that this right wing court is doing it’s best to promote….and this latest ruling will dismantle the wall of separation between church and state that has been in force since the country was founded…and place the 30% of us who are atheists in the position of having religion shoved down our throats any time that we go to any public meeting of any governmental unit we may have to interact with…placing us in the way of unwanted scrutiny when we decide to not stand and pray with the majority…essentially forcing us to abide by the tenets of christianity or be outcasts in our own country…but, that is what the right always does…force people to abide by their interpretation of religion and country and using the levers of government to do it….worst court in my lifetime…geez…

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