Come Tuesday night, we in Lake Worth are about to be putty in the hands of Satan.
The Supreme Court of the United States ruled 5 to 4 that Christian prayers said before meetings of an Upstate New York town council did not violate the constitutional prohibition against government establishment of religion; the justices cited history and tradition. A divided Supreme Court ruled that legislative bodies such as city councils can begin their meetings with prayer, even if it plainly favors a specific religion. That makes sense as Christianity is the prevailing religion in the United States with 171 million or 71%, so most of our invocations are Christian based.
“Ceremonial prayer is but a recognition that, since this Nation was founded and until the present day, many Americans deem that their own existence must be understood by precepts far beyond the authority of government,” Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote for the court’s conservative majority.
The Court further stated that a prayer could violate the Constitution if there was an attempt to intimidate, coerce or convert nonbelievers. Our invocations certainly do NOT do that. And if someone is that offended, they can step out of the room for those two minutes. Read the Washington Post article
This city is so petrified of lawsuits and are heavily influenced by the minorities--socialists and atheists in and around our city. It is sickening to a point of being ridiculous. We have had invocations since the beginning of this city...just more tradition--more history--being eliminated. You can throw invocations into the garbage pile along with our shuffleboard courts.
Why does anyone fear an invocation or what Chaz Stevens might do? Just let him speak.
But, oh no, the city has put this item on the Consent Agenda for November 10 in order to eliminate invocations and have a moment of silent prayer. They are looking for little resistance and that is probably what they will get.
9A Consent Agenda
A. Resolution No. xx-2015 - amend the Commission's Rules of Procedures to allow for a moment of silence
Satan will probably win this one in this wimpy "liberal" city of bad choices. Those who want to go along with Mr. Stevens' attempt to eliminate prayer that can be given by any denomination, (Jews, Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Non-believers, etc), have fallen into his hands...just where he wants you to be.
Satan will win this game all for this city wanting to eliminate 2 minutes of free speech.
6 comments:
Chaz Stevens is laughing his azz off and its his compatriots who will be voting against prayer.
I'm not a fan of Chaz, but I support this effort. Prayer should not be part of public meetings (regardless of what the Supreme Court said) but if it is you've got to open it up to any and all (as the Supreme Court said as well). There is no reason to require or coerce the public into public prayer at municipal meetings, go to church to pray.
this is an example of why our country is falling apart.
There is no leadership here. It boils down to Stevens threatening to file a lawsuit. Horrors.
I know how the Mayor and Vice feel about this guy, what does McVoy and Maier say about it?
I have no idea--haven't asked them how they feel about this guy. However, no matter how repulsive his message, what do they have to fear?
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