{"id":15069,"date":"2012-05-18T18:18:25","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T22:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/watchwomanonthewall\/?p=15069"},"modified":"2012-05-18T18:18:25","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T22:18:25","slug":"federal-court-ny-town-violated-constitution-by-opening-meetings-with-christian-themed-prayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2012\/05\/federal-court-ny-town-violated-constitution-by-opening-meetings-with-christian-themed-prayers.html","title":{"rendered":"Federal Court: NY Town Violated Constitution By Opening Meetings With Christian-Themed Prayers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Watchwoman:<\/strong><\/span> This is the first steps of banning Christ from another public arena!\u00a0 Here is the bottom line of this ruling…Now we have affirmative action for every religion except Christianity.\u00a0 In other words, every religion other than Christianity has to be given additional time and praying in the name of Jesus Christ has to be reduced by court order!\u00a0 That is the bottom line in this godless, anti-Christ ruling.\u00a0 Everyone of these judges is an anti-Christ.\u00a0 Barry Lynn is quoted below.\u00a0 He is one of the most evil of all the anti-Christs walking among us in these evil days!\u00a0 \u00a0 These evil judges have their time marked when they shall receive punishment for their godless, anti-Christian injustice they have rendered unto God the Son.\u00a0 God is not mocked and God never forgets!\u00a0 These evil judges have reaped recompense upon their heads!\u00a0 They are no different from Pontius Pilate and Herod who were responsible for crucifying the Lord Jesus Christ!\u00a0 They might as well be screaming, “Give us Barabbas!”\u00a0 “Crucify Jesus!” \u25ac Donna Calvin<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read King\u00a0 Solomon’s Words:
\n[Ecclesiastes 8:8-14 KJV]\u00a0<\/strong> There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.\u00a0 [\u00a0\u00a0 9 ]\u00a0 All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt. [\u00a0\u00a0 10 ]\u00a0 And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.[\u00a0\u00a0 11 ]\u00a0 Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.[\u00a0\u00a0 12 ]\u00a0 Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him:[\u00a0\u00a0 13 ]\u00a0 But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.[\u00a0\u00a0 14 ]\u00a0 There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.<\/p>\n

And the Words of St. Paul<\/span><\/strong>
\n[Ephesians 5:14 KJV]\u00a0 <\/span>Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. [\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>15 ]\u00a0 <\/span>See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, [ \u00a0\u00a0<\/span>16 ]\u00a0 <\/span>Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.\u00a0 <\/span>[ \u00a0\u00a0<\/span>17 ]\u00a0 <\/span>Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.<\/span><\/p>\n

Never forget judges will be judged by the KING of judges.\u00a0 There is NO court higher than the Supreme Court of God Almighty<\/strong>
\n[Hebrews 9:27 KJV]\u00a0<\/strong> And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:<\/p>\n

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May 18, 2012 by Billy\u00a0Hallowell<\/a> — GREECE, N.Y. (The Blaze\/AP)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Yet another epic prayer battle has been erupting in an upstate New York town. On Thursday,\u00a0a federal court of appeals ruled that\u00a0local officials violated the constitutional ban against favoring one religion over another by opening nearly every meeting over an 11-year span with prayers that stressed Christianity.<\/p>\n

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In what it said was its first case testing the constitutionally mandated separation of church and state, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled the town of Greece, a suburb of Rochester, should have made a greater effort to invite people from other faiths to open monthly meetings. The town\u2019s lawyer says it will appeal.<\/p>\n

From 1999 through 2007, and again from January 2009 through June 2010, every meeting was opened with a Christian-oriented invocation. In 2008, after residents Susan Galloway and Linda Stephens complained, four of 12 meetings were opened by non-Christians, including a Jewish layman, a Wiccan priestess and the chairman of the local Baha\u2019i congregation.<\/p>\n

Galloway and Stephens sued and, in 2010, a lower court ruled there was no evidence the town had intentionally excluded other faiths.<\/p>\n

A town employee each month selected clerics or lay people by using a local published guide of churches. The guide did not include non-Christian denominations, however. The court found that religious institutions in the town of just under 100,000 people are primarily Christian, and even Galloway and Stephens testified they knew of no non-Christian places of worship there.<\/p>\n

The court ruled the town should have expanded its search outside its borders.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe town\u2019s process for selecting prayer-givers virtually ensured a Christian viewpoint,\u201d it ruled.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The court acknowledges there was no formal policy on who should be invited to deliver invocations, and that the town was open to people of all faiths speaking at meetings. But it also noted the town board didn\u2019t publicize the idea that anybody could volunteer to deliver prayers and made no comment when a prayer in October 2007 described people who objected to the prayer practice as a \u201cminority . . . ignorant of the history of our country.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Rev. Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United, which represented Galloway and Stephens, was pleased with the ruling.<\/p>\n

\u201cGovernment meetings should welcome everyone,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen one faith is preferred over others, that clearly leaves some people out.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Alliance Defense Fund, an Arizona-based group that presses faith-based cases in courts nationwide, represented the town in court. It said it will appeal the ruling.<\/p>\n

Joel Oster, senior counsel for ADF who argued the town\u2019s case, called the ruling \u201chighly inconsistent\u201d with what the Supreme Court has said on the issue and said it means towns will have to \u201ccomplete an obstacle course\u201d before they can qualify to say a prayer before a meeting.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe town has no obligation to go outside of its borders as if it\u2019s an affirmative action program,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Read More: http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/federal-court-ny-town-violated-constitution-by-opening-meetings-with-christian-themed-prayers\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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