I believe this is what Gandhi was referring to when he said, "I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians." SCOTUS didn't get it and neither does the Reich. It is blatantly obvious by this display that "prayer" should NOT be allowed at government functions, they meant Christian only, as defined by them. I wonder if a Catholic priest had got up and said the Hail Mary, what would the evangelicals had done? [This incident occurred in 2012 but highlights what Greece v. Galloway is all about.]
This is the diversity that Kagan was referring to in her dissent:
As Kagan wrote in her dissent, "the Town of Greece should lose this case" because "the invocations given -- directly to those citizens -- were predominantly sectarian in content." The dissent went on to explain that the prayers before the town meetings in Greece went beyond what the majority opinion called "a benign acknowledgment of religion's role in society." In the dissent's view, it was not the prayer per se that crossed the constitutional line, but the fact that the prayers "repeatedly invoked a single religion's beliefs." Prayers included a discussion of "the saving sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross" and "the plan of redemption that is fulfilled in Jesus Christ."Hindu Prayer Interrupted In Senate By Christians - YouTube
Updated 12:38 AM 5/8/2014:: I did a bit more digging yesterday AM concerning this video. Initially I came up with the date of 2012 based on when it was uploaded but that didn't sound right after going through my archive. I think I may have found the proper dating Senate Prayer Led by Hindu Elicits Protest::Associated Press, Friday, July 13, 2007. Although a bit older than I thought, it still highlights the turmoil surrounding prayer at government "functions."
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