No Prayer! Why The Supreme Court is Wrong

Prayer should not be in public/government spaces. This is because it gives the impression of endorsing a particular religious view. That can't happen. Church and state need to be separate.

So unless the state starts holding prayers for every religion represented in a given community (which some communities do), I'd prefer government officials didn't encourage religious prayer in government functions.

But then again, what if there was one prayer and it was Buddhist? Or Muslim? Would SCOTUS have come to the same conclusion? I wonder...

While adults should be able to tolerate a prayer by a different religious group, this kind of decision is something that could easily be abused by a majority religious group. It's something that when prayers of a particular group support exclusivity is a real problem in DEMOCRATIC public spaces. What if someone was fundamentalist Muslim and prayed that all the infidels should be converted? What if a charismatic Christian prayed that women should all return to their "rightful" roles as wives and mothers only? Those kinds of prayers are not conducive to openness, dialogue, and debate. They'd make me want to leave.

I don't know about you, but I was under the impression that courts were supposed to protect minorities. I'd rather not go to a public function and be told I was going to hell for speaking my mind and having a uterus - but this could happen with such a decision.

Don't want to legislate prayers? Then say people should have prayers from every religion in a community or NONE AT ALL. Simple. Instead we got a half-ass, support the majority, church-state-mix-a-lot  decision.

Bad form SCOTUS. Bad form.