Interesting opinion after the Supremes decision about prayer
Thank goodness (but not God) for Justice Sonia Sotomayor. If it weren’t for her, today’s Supreme Court vote upholding prayer before town council meetings in the upstate New York town of Greece would have been a straight-religion vote, with the court’s Catholics voting to uphold and its Jews voting to strike down. By joining the court’s three Jewish justices, who are also, coincidentally or not, three of its liberals, Sotomayor saved the court from the embarrassment of revealing a church-state split along religious lines.
An opinion piece by Noah Feldman, a Harvard professor, in Bloomberg News. I did not like the Supreme Court decision, but I chuckled at that first paragraph.
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-05-05/say-a-prayer-for-justice-kennedy
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Personally, I wish that Kagan did not try to make a case for a "non denominational" public prayer. When I argued against this at a council meeting - more than 15 years ago - I said that there is no such thing as "one prayer fits all," that I would think that real religious people would be offended by such an idea.
Later I wanted to tell them that the Lord's Prayer is a Christian one. And, besides, as someone told me, at the Gospel of Thomas it is advised to enter a closet in a closed room and there to recite the Lord's Prayer...
