Town of Greece v. Galloway -- another horrendous decision by the conservative Catholic majority

The Supreme Court held 5-4 today in Town of Greece v. Galloway that sectarian prayers at government meetings do not violate the Establishment Clause. I'm sure that James Madison (Father of the Bill of Rights) and Thomas Jefferson (author of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom) are rolling over in their graves.

Justice Kennedy wrote in his majority opinion in Town of Greece: "Legislative prayer has become part of our heritage and tradition, part of our expressive idiom, similar to the Pledge of Allegiance, inaugural prayer, or the recitation of ‘God save the United States and this honorable Court’ at the opening of this Court’s sessions.” Slip op. at 19.

Unbelievable. Not true. Absolutely false. No. No. No.

As co-counsel with Mike Newdow in Newdow v. Roberts (challenging the religious practices of the 2009 presidential inaugural ceremony) -- representing over 250 nonbelievers -- I can say with certitude (just as Peter Eliasberg said during oral arguments in Salazar v. Buono (2010) that you won't find a Christian cross in a Jewish cemetery) that recitation of Christian prayers is NOT part of the heritage of nonbelievers and other nonChristians.

From this (and other decisions of the Court), I conclude that the Town of Greece decision is a fraud perpetrated by the five conservative Roman Catholic justices in furtherance of Christian dominion. They ignore the Establishment Clause at our peril.