Secular Alarmism

The Supreme Court this week ruled in favor of permitting voluntary prayer at city council meetings—a matter so benign that Eric Holder’s Justice Department didn’t even bother to oppose it. America’s long history of prayers and official chaplains at legislative sessions, both at the federal and state level, made the ruling an unavoidable decision for the Court, though four liberal justices dutifully lined up against it, treating a handful of Christian prayers at a town hall meeting in New York as a form of potential oppression.

“Get ready for a lot more Jesus in your life,” warned Slate. The Left casts any government nod to America’s historic religious traditions, no matter how small, as a move toward Christian theocracy. Many Americans wouldn’t consider “more Jesus” in public life a horrifying prospect, but this modest Supreme Court ruling won’t generate that supposedly scary scenario. The Court’s decision merely ratifies its own precedent from a 1983 case that upheld legislative prayer. Had the court ignored that precedent, the secularist triumph over public life would be near complete.

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