Think the SCOTUS opening prayer ruling is no big deal?

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23. I think there are several things that could be challenged there.

The definition including "congregations" is discriminatory on its face, because atheists or other religions are not organized in "congregations" and thus are not included, making this a forcing of a point of view...

“So long as the town maintains a policy of nondiscrimination, the Constitution does not require it to search beyond its borders for non-Christian prayer givers in an effort to...promote ‘a diversity of views.’”

It doesn't require them to go in search, but any denial of any point of view could challenge that policy of nondiscrimination it seems.

It certainly opens up the door for an almost infinite number of creative, humorous responses, and perhaps a few deaths.

This obviously ain't the end of this.

It's deeper than that though. This SC isn't the disease, just a symptom. I think it's a cultural problem, right along with Clown in Nevada (or whatever his name is) and the Westboro bigots and the rise in hate groups, cutting relief - these are all just symptoms. If it is a cultural problem it is very likely to grow like any disease afflicts the living unless we recognize it as such and attack it at that level. For good or bad, one of the single most important places to affect culture is education, and the people in this country are the product of what we have been doing, or not doing. That might need to change.

I don't mean fix the schools, though. Until we fix the adults, until they start living again like cooperation and respect are the foundation for them to thrive in this world, they can't fix the schools. And I think that particular problem might just be so difficult after so many years of inattention that something else will happen first.