{"id":40935,"date":"2013-11-07T17:00:49","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T17:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/csm_public_prayer_why_devil_worshipers_came_up_in_supreme_court_arguments\/"},"modified":"2013-11-07T17:00:49","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T17:00:49","slug":"csm_public_prayer_why_devil_worshipers_came_up_in_supreme_court_arguments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40935","title":{"rendered":"(CSM) Public Prayer: why devil worshipers came up in Supreme Court arguments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On one side of the court, justices Kagan, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Sonia Sotomayor view the prayers offered at the town board meetings as overtly religious and posing a significant threat of coercion.<\/p>\n<p>It places residents about to appear before the board in the position of risking the ire of board members (and losing votes) if they refuse to participate in a public prayer that is obviously important to board members.<\/p>\n<p>On the other side of the court, Chief Justice John Roberts, and Justices Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia, and Kennedy appear more concerned about the problem of the government trying to fine-tune an expression of religious belief \u201d\u201c or to censor it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/Justice\/2013\/1106\/Public-prayer-why-devil-worshipers-came-up-in-Supreme-Court-arguments-video\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On one side of the court, justices Kagan, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Sonia Sotomayor view the prayers offered at the town board meetings as overtly religious and posing a significant threat of coercion. It places residents about to appear before<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40935\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,114,108,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-law-legal-issues","category-religion-culture","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}