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ButterflyEffect  ·  3829 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Reading Hobby Lobby in Context

With regards to the Greece decision...isn't that clearly church and state being melded into one? I don't understand how that doesn't constitute favoring Christianity over other religions, unless of course they're saying prayers from other organized religions which they aren't.

I don't think that intimidation or coercion is the point, and that Kennedy was willfully ignoring the fact that that shouldn't be happening under any circumstances at a public hearing. If they were starting with a Jewish or Islamic prayer I'm sure the ruling would have went a bit differently.