Fresh off US Supreme Court prayer win, national firm backs TN county on Judeo-Christian preamble

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

A national religious liberty law firm, which recently won a major U.S. Supreme Court case on prayer at high school football games, is now supporting a Tennessee county’s inclusion of Judeo-Christian references in an official document.

First Liberty, which defends cases of religious liberty and expression, won before the high court on behalf of Washington football coach Joseph Kennedy in the recent Kennedy v. Bremerton School District case.

Kennedy accused the school district of violating his First Amendment rights after he was put on administrative leave for refusing to stop praying with students mid-field after games ended. In a historic decision, the Supreme Court ruled in Kennedy’s favor, changing decades-held precedents on the separation of church and state and spurring debates on how far the new standard goes.

Now, the firm is weighing in on the controversy in Sumner County. The county commission included a sentence in a newly passed preamble to an official document ensuring the commissioners act “reflective of the Judeo-Christian values inherent in our nation's founding.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/fresh-off-us-supreme-court-030112837.html

[orthoclad]

1. When do the human sacrifices begin?

After all, human sacrifice is central to the Abrahamic roots of "Judeo-Christian" values.

Right down to the sacrifice of the Cross, and ritual cannibalism.

[Timeflyer]

2. Patriotism, the last refuge of scoundrels, now with phony forced Christianity,

just like the nation's Founders did not intend.

[VMA131Marine]

3. Can someone articulate specifically what Judeo-Christian values are?

I suspect there are as many definitions as there are people, which makes the term essentially meaningless.

[Mad_Machine76]

4. +1

This is supposedly why the founders- with centuries of bloody conflict sparked by religions- thought it best to have some separation of church and state. Because sooner or later everybody will be at each other's throats because religious beliefs and interpretations thereof are so subjective. And of course, some people don't even have a religion. This isn't anybody's idea of freedom.

[maxrandb]

5. "Religion is what keeps the poor from eating the rich"

- Napoleon