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Interests => Religious Discussions => Topic started by: Chris_ on January 16, 2009, 11:39:45 AM

Title: Federal Judge Tosses out Newdow’s Challenge of Inaugural Prayers, ‘So Help Me Go
Post by: Chris_ on January 16, 2009, 11:39:45 AM
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Federal Judge Tosses out Newdow’s Challenge of Inaugural Prayers, ‘So Help Me God’

Washington (CNSNews.com) - Atheist Michael Newdow and 30 other "nontheistic" plaintiffs say they will decide Friday whether to appeal Thursday's decision by a federal judge dismissing their demand that President-elect Barack Obama be barred from saying “So help me God” when he takes the oath of office Jan. 20.
 
U.S. District Court Judge Reggie B. Walton also refused to block prayers at the inaugural – leaving the Reverends Rick Warren and Joseph Lowery free to give the invocation and benediction at Obama’s swearing-in.

Newdow had sued to prevent the addition of "so help me God" to the oath and the prayers claiming they were unconstitutional and violated the “separation of church and state.”   
 
But Walton said that the plaintiffs lacked standing to bring the suit because they failed to show any concrete "harm" that would result from allowing the prayers or the phrase to be said.

MORE (http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=42022)

It's good to see a federal judge get it right once in a while.
Title: Re: Federal Judge Tosses out Newdow’s Challenge of Inaugural Prayers, ‘So Help Me Go
Post by: jinxmchue on January 16, 2009, 11:56:32 AM
Quote from: lug-nut on January 16, 2009, 11:39:45 AM
MORE (http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=42022)

It's good to see a federal judge get it right once in a while.


The only way he could've gotten it more right is if he had looked Newdow in the eye and said, "Go **** yourself."

Edit: Yeah, that wasn't very Christian of me.  People like Newdow get under my skin too much.  I need to let the Lord work on that.
Title: Re: Federal Judge Tosses out Newdow’s Challenge of Inaugural Prayers, ‘So Help Me Go
Post by: Wineslob on January 20, 2009, 04:26:35 PM
Quote from: jinxmchue on January 16, 2009, 11:56:32 AM
The only way he could've gotten it more right is if he had looked Newdow in the eye and said, "Go **** yourself."

Edit: Yeah, that wasn't very Christian of me.  People like Newdow get under my skin too much.  I need to let the Lord work on that.

Jinx, don't worry I've been wanting to tell that jackass the same thing for years.
Title: Re: Federal Judge Tosses out Newdow’s Challenge of Inaugural Prayers, ‘So Help Me Go
Post by: Lord Undies on January 20, 2009, 05:36:37 PM
The judge could have thrown it out on the basis that the notion of "separation of church and state" does not exist anywhere in our Constitution.  It is merely a philosophy that is binding only to those who wish to embrace it.  It has no foothold in law.
Title: Re: Federal Judge Tosses out Newdow’s Challenge of Inaugural Prayers, ‘So Help Me Go
Post by: Chris_ on January 20, 2009, 07:42:04 PM
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U.S. District Court Judge Reggie B. Walton also refused to block prayers at the inaugural – leaving the Reverends Rick Warren and Joseph Lowery free to give the invocation and benediction at Obama’s swearing-in.

That was a prayer?  I just thought it was run of the mill "whitey is a racist" crap.
Title: Re: Federal Judge Tosses out Newdow’s Challenge of Inaugural Prayers, ‘So Help Me Go
Post by: Sam Adams on January 23, 2009, 05:59:50 AM
If judges ever declare public prayer illegal, pray publicly anyway.