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OfflineTri High
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A city hall meeting
    #14295821 - 04/15/11 02:10 PM (13 years, 1 month ago)

So I went to the city hall meeting and they had a pastor or father say a prayer before starting the meeting.

Isn't it declared somewhere in the constitution that there should be a strict separation of church and state?

And, wouldn't having a christian prayer said before a town hall meeting, explicitly stating during which that God will grant insight and wisdom to the council members in their decision making, not at all proper?

Do they do this for congress, too?


And swearing to god on a bible on the stand, to tell the truth...  Are civil and criminal court cases not dealing heavily with "the state"?  Well, church is swearing to a standard deity of some kind to tell the truth.


Seriously, what the fuck gives?

And any mason will swear to god because god is not the 'grand architect' or some bullshit, while still lying and not get in trouble.

What if I swear to the god of lying that I'll tell the truth? 

What the fuck, guys.

Someone set me straight about all this, so help me god.


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Re: A city hall meeting [Re: Tri High]
    #14295944 - 04/15/11 02:32 PM (13 years, 1 month ago)

maybe you live in the buttfuck of nowhere where nobody cares?


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Re: A city hall meeting [Re: Tri High]
    #14295970 - 04/15/11 02:36 PM (13 years, 1 month ago)

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So I went to the city hall meeting and they had a pastor or father say a prayer before starting the meeting.

Isn't it declared somewhere in the constitution that there should be a strict separation of church and state?




No.  In fact the phrase doesn't appear at all.


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Re: A city hall meeting [Re: zappaisgod]
    #14296038 - 04/15/11 02:47 PM (13 years, 1 month ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_church_and_state_in_the_United_States

The first three lines.  Read them.

Come back.  Thanks for the revelation that it is not explicitly stated in the constitution, only implied.

So, back to where we were.

Why come they make people swear by a god in court when not everyone recognizes a god to swear by in court?

Why, at a city hall meeting of a diverse city, to they pray to the christian god for counsel and direction?


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Re: A city hall meeting [Re: Tri High]
    #14296118 - 04/15/11 03:06 PM (13 years, 1 month ago)

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Isn't it declared somewhere in the constitution that there should be a strict separation of church and state?




No.

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof"

It quite clearly says Congress shall not establish a (state) religion, and that you can practice any religion you wish to. It says not a word about separating anything, though I wish it did.

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Re: A city hall meeting [Re: Tri High]
    #14297356 - 04/15/11 06:51 PM (13 years, 1 month ago)

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_church_and_state_in_the_United_States

The first three lines.  Read them.

Come back.  Thanks for the revelation that it is not explicitly stated in the constitution, only implied.

So, back to where we were.

Why come they make people swear by a god in court when not everyone recognizes a god to swear by in court?

Why, at a city hall meeting of a diverse city, to they pray to the christian god for counsel and direction?



Is the Christian god different from the Jewish or Muslim god?  No it is not.  And they don't make everybody swear to god in court.  And they have "in god we trust" on the money.  And a whole lot of other shit that probably chaps your annoying ass.  Which suits me just fine.


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Re: A city hall meeting [Re: zappaisgod]
    #14297441 - 04/15/11 07:10 PM (13 years, 1 month ago)

So in the world there are only muslims, jews, and christians?

No, there are not.  There are Russians, Indians, Hawaiians, Chinese, Japanese, Africans, etc...

All  have their own faith.

So conforming to God is something they must do to obey our laws?

If one breaks a law can they not get in trouble because of their 'religious' affiliation?

Gods =/= spirits, let us assume.


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Re: A city hall meeting [Re: Tri High]
    #14297451 - 04/15/11 07:12 PM (13 years, 1 month ago)

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So in the world there are only muslims, jews, and christians?

No, there are not.  There are Russians, Indians, Hawaiians, Chinese, Japanese, Africans, etc...

All  have their own faith.

So conforming to God is something they must do to obey our laws?

If one breaks a law can they not get in trouble because of their 'religious' affiliation?

Gods =/= spirits, let us assume.




You made an asinine whine about them saying some prayer before a town meeting.  Don't join in.  Nobody forced you to.  And, as I already pointed out, you do not have to swear to god in court.  Whine whine whine.


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Re: A city hall meeting [Re: zappaisgod]
    #14297459 - 04/15/11 07:14 PM (13 years, 1 month ago)



Let's keep personal attacks out of this discussion, please.

I am just curious as to why the standard in America is God when it is explicitly and implicitly stated that 'the state' will not impose any belief system on any member of the country.


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Re: A city hall meeting [Re: Tri High]
    #14297470 - 04/15/11 07:17 PM (13 years, 1 month ago)

How does anybody saying a prayer before a meeting impose anything on you?  Like I said, you don't have to swear to god in court.  Whine whine whine.


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Re: A city hall meeting [Re: Tri High]
    #14297501 - 04/15/11 07:26 PM (13 years, 1 month ago)

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And swearing to god on a bible on the stand, to tell the truth...





never once had to and never had to object, no bible was ever produced and all
I was asked to agree to was the statement "do you swear to tell the truth,
the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you"

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Re: A city hall meeting [Re: Prisoner#1]
    #14297504 - 04/15/11 07:27 PM (13 years, 1 month ago)

Well, it always seems that 'god' naturally follows from that statement.

so help you...

Really, in some cases, you might be better helped if you were not to tell the truth.  So...help you....____?


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Re: A city hall meeting [Re: Tri High]
    #14297510 - 04/15/11 07:29 PM (13 years, 1 month ago)

All they asked me was, "Do you swear to tell the truth?"  No bible, no god, no nothing.


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Re: A city hall meeting [Re: Tri High]
    #14297815 - 04/15/11 08:34 PM (13 years, 1 month ago)

> Well, it always seems that 'god' naturally follows from that statement.

So you are upset because of your conditioning rather than reality?  :rolleyes:

> Really, in some cases, you might be better helped if you were not to tell the truth.  So...help you....____?

In the context of the legal system, if you swear to tell the truth and then lie, you are committing the crime of purjury.  Not the brightest move in the world.  In the US, where you have the right to remain silent, it is better to say nothing than to lie under oath.


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Re: A city hall meeting [Re: Tri High]
    #14299634 - 04/16/11 05:22 AM (13 years, 1 month ago)

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I am just curious as to why the standard in America is God when it is explicitly and implicitly stated that 'the state' will not impose any belief system on any member of the country.




Your city council isn't the state.  The city council can pretty much do as they please since the only thing the constitution really says about them is that they can't infringe any of your rights and they have to have a republican form of government.

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Re: A city hall meeting [Re: Tri High]
    #14300185 - 04/16/11 09:42 AM (13 years, 1 month ago)

If they were not allowed to pray, that would be the state imposing on their rights.

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Re: A city hall meeting [Re: ChuangTzu]
    #14310261 - 04/18/11 02:26 AM (13 years, 1 month ago)

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Your city council isn't the state.  The city council can pretty much do as they please since the only thing the constitution really says about them is that they can't infringe any of your rights and they have to have a republican form of government.




Constitutionally speaking that is untrue.  Municipal governments are held to the same standards as the states from which they derive their authority.

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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion




The due process clause of the 14th amendment has expanded that to include state governments and their municipalities.

As far as I can tell the Supreme Court hasn't heard a case directly on point.  Lee v. Weisman went to school prayer and there is some decent on if it applies to adult institutions.  I believe that there is a division between circuits on this question.  Bunting v. Mellen would suggest that the conduct is unconstitutional as longs as they required you to "be respectfully at rest" during the prayer.


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Re: A city hall meeting [Re: Tri High]
    #14310489 - 04/18/11 05:09 AM (13 years, 1 month ago)

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Why come they make people swear by a god in court when not everyone recognizes a god to swear by in court?





Who is "they"?  What are you referring to by "court"? 


As stated your premise is incorrect: that is not something people are made to do in "court".  If you have a particular case where you claim such is done, then cite it with particularity so we know what you talking about.

Generally you do not have to swear at all, to god or anything else, do to the first amendment and likely the religious freedom restoration act as such is incompatible with some protestant beliefs, for example.

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Why, at a city hall meeting of a diverse city, to they pray to the christian god for counsel and direction?




This isn't really a question, but if this is a typo and your asking "why do they", then I'd imagine its cuz someone decided its a good idea.  I don't know what this matters though: it doesn't really matter as to the legality, per se.


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So conforming to God is something they must do to obey our laws?




No- what does "conforming to God" mean in the first place?  I have no idea what this refers to.

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If one breaks a law can they not get in trouble because of their 'religious' affiliation?




Yes, per the religious freedom restoration act if their religion and belief is bonafide and the law doesn't advance a compelling state interest, et cet.

Yes per the first amendment if the law is establishing a religion or favoring one over another rather than establishing religion/viewpoint netural law.



As for your question, the conduct was illegal if it tended to establish a religious practice or institution, discriminated on religious grounds, et cet

If some guy just made a statement, this is not a violation.  If the council forced you to show respect towards the prayer, join in, et cet than it probably did violate the first amendment.

As to whether a prayer made at all is a violation of the first amendment, I wouldn't believe so, however; if the prayer mentions god and so forth, I would imagine it would or should.

A stronger case might be a religious freedom restoration act claim if the prayer was made by a city official or recognized by the proceeding in some official capacity and you had some bonafide religious practice (probably not atheism, atheists have less legal protection) in legitimate conflict with that conduct or that tended to deprive you of services/information available to other residents.

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Re: A city hall meeting [Re: johnm214]
    #14310510 - 04/18/11 05:30 AM (13 years, 1 month ago)

> If the council forced you to show respect towards the prayer, join in, et cet than it probably did violate the first amendment.

I almost got expelled from high school (a long time ago) over this issue.  We were required to stand and recite the "Pledge of Allegiance" each morning before the start of our first class.  My junior year, I took issue with the "one nation under god" bit and refused to participate.  Needless to say, having a "young atheist free thinker" in the middle of the bible belt didn't go over very well.  After a lot of threats from both sides, we decided that I could stay silent on the "under god" phrase, but participate/recite the rest.

Oddly, we also used to "join hands and say a prayer" before the start of extra curricular activities (sports), but I never took an issue with that.  It was an opt in system, rather than being forced under threat of expulsion.  I didn't like it, but since I wasn't forced to participate, I kept my dislike to myself.


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    #14310520 - 04/18/11 05:44 AM (13 years, 1 month ago)

That's pretty wild that they would have a fit over that.  The pledge of allgiance seems pretty pointless to me, and completely pointless if it is mandatory.

Its a bit disheartening to imagine that this same school teaches the civics/government classes which cover the first amendment and yet the administration of such cannot recognize the inherent consitutional problems in their conduct.

Honestly, other than myself objecting to the whole charade as coercive and pointless, I never even really considered the words as a child.  They meant as much to me as tieing my shoelaces did: I certainly never intended to "pledge allegiance to the government".

The whole procedure seems like it should be abolished: it reeks of an authoritative government abusing the law that gives them power over the area's children.

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