"When one month a clergy member refers to Jesus, and the next to Allah or Jehovah, the government does not identify itself with one religion," she wrote.īut despite some of that language in the dissent, Monday's decision is narrow. Kagan said the town could have asked Christian ministers to offer more generic prayers or included wider array of religious faiths. Justice Elena Kagan, writing for the court's four liberal justices, sharply disagreed, saying the court was "allowing the town of Greece to turn its assemblies for citizens into a forum for Christian prayer." "That nearly all of the congregations in town turned out to be Christian," Kennedy wrote, "does not reflect an aversion or bias on the part of town leaders against minority faiths." But in the opinion, by Justice Anthony Kennedy, the court said the prayers also invoked "universal themes" seeking wisdom and cooperation and that local officials had made a reasonable effort to include ministers of other faiths.
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