.bo的部落格

最高法院星期一已5票對4票裁決

市政公開開會時可以先禱告在舉行會義

這樣不算違憲, 法官認為禱告儀式是神聖

對任何正當的行為都有加持的意味

(對於較前衛的人與保守派的人各持不同看法,

沒有宗教的人認為不需要宗教來…., 不同宗教的人可

能也有不同看法, 為何要用你的….. )

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/06/nyregion/supreme-court-allows-prayers-at-town-meetings.html?emc=edit_na_20140505&nlid=69108983&_r=0

WASHINGTON — In a major decision on the role of religion in government, the Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the Constitution allows town boards to start their sessions with sectarian prayers. The ruling, by a 5-to-4 vote, divided the court’s more conservative members from its liberal ones, and their combative opinions reflected very different views of the role of faith in public life, in contemporary society and in the founding of the Republic.

Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, writing for the majority, said that a town in upstate New York had not violated the Constitution by starting its public meetings with a prayer from a “chaplain of the month” who was almost always Christian and who sometimes used distinctly sectarian language. The prayers were ceremonial, Justice Kennedy wrote, and served to signal the solemnity of the occasion.