Editorial: The Supreme Court ruling on school prayer deserves a big fat F (via latimesopinion)
For more than 50 years, the court has ruled that prayer in public schools violates the 1st Amendment’s prohibition against the establishment of religion.for the court majority, Justice Neil M. Gorsuch so badly twisted the reality of the case, he could join Cirque du Soleil as a contortionist. He described Kennedy’s prayer as short, private and personal, and the students as “otherwise occupied” during the prayer. Hardly.
Sotomayor summed it up correctly by writing: “This case is about whether a school district is required to allow one of its employees to incorporate a public, communicative display of the employee’s personal religious beliefs into a school event, where that display is recognizable as part of a longstanding practice of the employee ministering religion to students as the public watched.”
It’s unclear precisely what he means by that, but historical practice in this country has been overwhelmingly Christian as the dominant religion; relying solely on what happened historically could result in giving too little respect to the rights of religious minorities, as well as shifts in religious belief. Nearly 30% of American adultsat all, up by more than 10 percentage points over a decade ago. The percentage of those identifying as Christian fell accordingly.
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