So, prayers at the inauguration are as bad as segregation? Seriously?

In a motion filed Tuesday afternoon, lawyers representing the atheists submitted the 1952 Supreme Court brief filed by the United States in Brown v. Board of Education.
They point to language in that brief as evidence that the scheduled prayers including references to God demonstrate an unconstitutional preference of religion over non-religion.

The atheists highlight a section of the historic brief which quotes a 1948 message to Congress from President Harry Truman saying the government has a duty to protect individual liberties.
“We shall not finally achieve the ideals for which this nation was founded so long as any American suffers discrimination as a result of his race, or religion, or color, or the land of origin of his forefathers,” Truman said.
The lawsuit seeks to stop the religious rites at next week’s inauguration. Attorneys general from all 50 states — weighing in ahead of a federal hearing on Thursday — earlier called the lawsuit bunk.
The lawsuit was filed late last month by Michael Newdow. It also attempts to pre-empt Chief Justice John Roberts from adding the words “so help me God” to the inaugural oath.
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The Presidential Inaugural Committee, which is in charge of running the proceedings on January 20th, is named in the suit. But the committee has argued that the lawsuit against is pointless. In their brief to Judge Walton, the Presidential Inaugural Committee said the ultimate decision with the oath of office rests with Obama.

And that’s the point, Obama has the right to have prayers read at his inauguration. He can say under God if he wants because the Constitution protects his right to express his religion.

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

The atheists in attempting to stop Obama from expressing himself religiously at his inauguration demonstrate their desire to remove religious expression from public discourse and by invoking Brown v. Board of Education, they demonstrate just how deluded they’ve become in their quest to do so. It strikes me that they have a serious martyr complex, they view themselves as discriminated against when they have to hear us invoke our God in public. But that’s the way this nation has always been and they’ll just have to learn to tolerate it until their numbers are large enough to take over this nation and reshape it in their image. I hate to see the mess they’ll make of it when they do.
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