Perspective
May 13, 2014
Public prayer: between a rock and a hard place
The underlying problem here is one of change. In 1948, the nation was 91 percent Christian. Today, that number is 77 percent. By Ashutosh Bhagwat
On May 5, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Town of Greece v. Galloway, 2014 DJDAR 5589, that the establishment clause of the First Amendment did not prohibit the recitation of prayers at the beginning of the Town of Greece's monthly town board meetings, even though the prayers were explicitly sectarian and almost always Christian. The majority, constituting five conservative justices, concluded that the long tradition of legislative p...
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