ECO Supreme Court Prayer

EOC Supreme Court Prayer

The source is NBC News it says that in Washington that the Supreme Court, is testing how far they can go in government bodies can offering prayers at the beginning of an official meetings. There was  a after courtroom arguments in a case that was brought by two women from upstate New York that they though that justices had no interest in eliminating prayers at government meetings. They say instead they use justices grappled with that they” could come up limits to the prayer without making those disagree with the message feel coerced  into participating, or fear that they may alienate government officials.” Also that justice Elena Kagan was thinking if it would be permissible for the Supreme Court to open the sessions by having a minister face the lawyers and to have them “Acknowledge the saving sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross.”  Like for if they had the chief justice then called your case by using making an members sign of the cross would that make it okay. Thomas Hungar, a lawyer for the town, said that he did not think so but in this case prayer before a legislative body, the court doctrine has found that the country, “from its very foundations and founding,” allow it, he said. Also the thorny nature of the case was apparent throughout the argument. Some justices wondered what would be an acceptable prayer to appeal to all faiths, and the nonbelievers. Justice Antonin Scalia asked, to laugher in the courtroom: “What about devil-worshippers?” “Who is going to make this determination?” said John Roberts wanted to know. Scalia drew a distinction between prayers before a legislative session and prayers before a judicial session, as in Kagan’s example. “They are there as citizens,” Scalia said, speaking of legislators. “And as citizens, they bring to their job all of — all of the predispositions that citizens have. And these people perhaps invoke the deity at meals. They should not be able to invoke it before they undertake a serious governmental task such as enacting laws or ordinances?” This is some things that they had to face.

When it happened in class I thought it was different and that I wasn’t expecting it. But I being a Christian I liked it but not everyone is so I think it would be respectable even if not right to say a prayer for other religions too.