A Texas judge is being sued for beginning courtroom sessions with prayer.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation filed a lawsuit against Montgomery County Justice
of the Peace Wayne Mack.
He's being sued in federal court by the nation's leading secularist legal organization because
of his courtroom tradition of having guest pastors and chaplains offer an invocation
before each session.
The Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation, which advocates for a strict separation
of church and state, fought a lawsuit on Tuesday against Montgomery County Justice of the Peace
Wayne Mack that argues that he has repeatedly violated the Establishment Clause of the First
Amendment to the United States Constitution by holding Christian prayers at the beginning
of each session.
The First Amendment does not prohibit holding a Christian prayer at the beginning of a session.
The First Amendment protects that right.
It's freedom of religion.
Freedom of speech.
These morons believe that the First Amendment says that it should be wrong to have prayer.
What kind of sense does that make?
It's freedom of speech.
Freedom of religion.
First Amendment says that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
And that's exactly what this guy's doing.
He's freely exercising his religion, which is fine.
Or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or of the right of the people peaceably
to assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Now this says that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.
Okay, so they can't officially establish a religion over the land.
That's not being done in this case.
Or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
Is the fact that this judge wants to pray before his courtroom sessions, is that prohibiting
the free exercise of religion?
No.
That it's exercising the free exercise of religion.
And it's freedom of speech.
This lawsuit is contrary to what the First Amendment says, and it should be thrown out.
It's absolutely ridiculous.
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