High court avoids dispute over highway crosses (Justice Thomas throws a hissy)

[usregimechange]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court won't hear an appeal of a ruling that 12-foot-high crosses along Utah highways in honor of dead state troopers violate the Constitution.

The justices voted 8-1 Monday to reject an appeal from Utah and a state troopers' group that wanted the court to throw out the ruling and take a more permissive view of religious symbols on public land...

Justice Clarence Thomas issued a 19-page opinion dissenting from Monday's order. Thomas said the case offered the court the opportunity to clear up confusion over its approach to disputes over the First Amendment's Establishment Clause, the prohibition against governmental endorsement of religion.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SUPREME_COURT_HIGHWAY_CROSSES?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/10-1276.pdf

Love how any type of nuance or non black and white reasoning makes Thomas' head explode. The vastness of reality continues to disturb neurotics and authoritarians. How do they make it in the world? And how did Scalito avoid it this time?

[tblue]

1. Awww. Poor Justice Ginny's Husband.

Didn't get his way. And his buddy Antonin let him down too? Oh the horrors.

[SpiralHawk]

2. "New Ants? WTF? I does not do New Ants." - Clarence T. (R)

[hootinholler]

8. I seen some far ants, but I never seen no new ants. n/t

[SpiralHawk]

11. They are subtle

[FarCenter]

3. Odds are that most of the troopers were Mormons and not Christians anyway

Evangelicals should have brought suit, not atheists.

[SheilaT]

4. Maybe Catholics should have

brought suit that they were crosses, not crucifixes.

Any time any non-Catholic starts pushing prayer in schools, I start enthusiastically recommending the Hail Mary and the Apostle's Creed. People who think generic Protestantism is somehow magically an airbrushed version of Christianity that everyone can accept, need to have some version that they don't like shoved at them.

[sammytko]

10. Good one!

Suggest stations of the cross during lent on Fridays and rosary on non Lenten Fridays!

[hootinholler]

7. I thought Mormons are Christian?

:shrug:

[thereismore]

5. He actually wrote 19 pages of opinion? Probably handed to him by Ginny. nt

[notadmblnd]

9. You and I both know he didn't write shit.

One or two of his clerks did it for him.

[spanone]

6. hey clarence, there's no confusion. you are just fucking wrong.