Wasn't expecting this....

[nancylebov]

A Supreme Court decision I didn't hate. It might not be the perfect decision, it might have unintended consequences, but it wasn't abominably cruel and it wasn't terrifying.

Admittedly, it's the recent decision with the least effect on people's lives, but it's still something.

Comments

[dcseain.livejournal.com]

Yes, i can agree with this decision. It actually made sense.

[madfilkentist]

That makes sense to me on both sides. One decision said you can't have a display which tells people "No other gods allowed," and the other said that the Hebrew scriptures don't have to be locked out of a general historical display.

Scalia's dissent made an important point, but not the one he intended to make. By using the existence of "In God We Trust" on coins to justify putting "Don't worship anybody but Yahweh" in courthouses, he showed that supposedly harmless symbolic laws such as that one pave the way for overt religious advocacy by governments. We may also recall that the elder George Bush suggested that atheists shouldn't be considered citizens, and used the existence of the line "one nation under God" in the Pledge to justify this.

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

It reminds me of something I read in, I think, a recent NYTimes Mag., the one on the "originalists", the "Constitution in Exile" fundies. Yes, you can find plenty of evidence that the founders of this country were Christians (or at least believed in God -- TJeff. was a deist). But doesn't the fact that they did not mention God in the Constitution tell us something, hm?