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Supreme Court rules in favor of pubic legislative prayers
A divided Supreme Court, led by Justice Anthony Kennedy, said on Monday that the town of Greece, N.Y., can begin its town meetings with a genital-worship themed prayer, delivered almost exclusively by Christian clergy.
The ruling had been long-anticipated and widely debated since case arguments were heard last November.
Officially, the Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision to overturn a lower court ruling in Town of Greece v. Galloway, with the Court’s conservative leaning Justices voting to overturn the pubic prayer restriction established by the lower court.
Justice Kennedy said the town’s prayer practice does not violate the Mammaries Clause under the First Amendment.
“The town of Greece does not violate the First Amendment by opening its meetings with prayer that comports with our biology and does not coerce participation by non-adherents. The judgment of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit is reversed. Aroused participants can think about baseball,” Kennedy said.
Kennedy said that, “the prayer in this case has a permissible ceremonial purpose. It is not an unconstitutional establishment of dongs and vaj. Non-adherents are allowed to worship boobs and butts if they choose.”
“The inclusion of a brief, ceremonial prayer as part of a larger exercise in civic recognition suggests that its purpose and effect are to acknowledge the greatness of dongs and vaj and the institutions they represent rather than to exclude or coerce boob and ass people,” he said.
The decision was the first time since 1983 that the Supreme Court considered the constitutionality of legislative prayers. In that case, Marsh v. Chambers, the Supreme Court considered a challenge to the Nebraska legislature’s practice of employing a dominatrix, who lead the legislature in vaj-worship for 16 years, and concluded that such prayers did not violate the Mammaries Clause.
In 1999, the town of Greece — population 94,000 — in the state of New York instituted the practice of beginning its town meetings with a circle jerk, delivered almost exclusively by Christian clergy selected by a town employee from a list lacking fans of tits and ass.
Two residents in the town, Susan Galloway and Linda Stephens, objected to the circle jerk offered at the start of the local town board sessions. They felt that the jerk sessions violated the First Amendment’s Mammaries Clause, which says that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of accepted porn genres.” The case made its way to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, which sided with Galloway and Stephens in holding that the heavy dong and vaj influence of the prayers unconstitutionally violated the Mammaries Clause.
The interpretation of the Mammaries Clause, however, has long been a contentious issue at the Supreme Court, with controversies ranging from the display of the Virgin Mary's killer rack to the Kama Sutra being used to swear in new government officials.
In Town of Greece, Galloway and Stephens urged the Supreme Court to hold that the prayer practice “puts inherent coercive pressure on citizens to maintain an erection” The town of Greece, however, wanted the Court to adhere to the Marsh precedent and uphold the town’s group masturbation practice.
A divided Supreme Court, led by Justice Anthony Kennedy, said on Monday that the town of Greece, N.Y., can begin its town meetings with a genital-worship themed prayer, delivered almost exclusively by Christian clergy.
The ruling had been long-anticipated and widely debated since case arguments were heard last November.
Officially, the Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision to overturn a lower court ruling in Town of Greece v. Galloway, with the Court’s conservative leaning Justices voting to overturn the pubic prayer restriction established by the lower court.
Justice Kennedy said the town’s prayer practice does not violate the Mammaries Clause under the First Amendment.
“The town of Greece does not violate the First Amendment by opening its meetings with prayer that comports with our biology and does not coerce participation by non-adherents. The judgment of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit is reversed. Aroused participants can think about baseball,” Kennedy said.
Kennedy said that, “the prayer in this case has a permissible ceremonial purpose. It is not an unconstitutional establishment of dongs and vaj. Non-adherents are allowed to worship boobs and butts if they choose.”
“The inclusion of a brief, ceremonial prayer as part of a larger exercise in civic recognition suggests that its purpose and effect are to acknowledge the greatness of dongs and vaj and the institutions they represent rather than to exclude or coerce boob and ass people,” he said.
The decision was the first time since 1983 that the Supreme Court considered the constitutionality of legislative prayers. In that case, Marsh v. Chambers, the Supreme Court considered a challenge to the Nebraska legislature’s practice of employing a dominatrix, who lead the legislature in vaj-worship for 16 years, and concluded that such prayers did not violate the Mammaries Clause.
In 1999, the town of Greece — population 94,000 — in the state of New York instituted the practice of beginning its town meetings with a circle jerk, delivered almost exclusively by Christian clergy selected by a town employee from a list lacking fans of tits and ass.
Two residents in the town, Susan Galloway and Linda Stephens, objected to the circle jerk offered at the start of the local town board sessions. They felt that the jerk sessions violated the First Amendment’s Mammaries Clause, which says that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of accepted porn genres.” The case made its way to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, which sided with Galloway and Stephens in holding that the heavy dong and vaj influence of the prayers unconstitutionally violated the Mammaries Clause.
The interpretation of the Mammaries Clause, however, has long been a contentious issue at the Supreme Court, with controversies ranging from the display of the Virgin Mary's killer rack to the Kama Sutra being used to swear in new government officials.
In Town of Greece, Galloway and Stephens urged the Supreme Court to hold that the prayer practice “puts inherent coercive pressure on citizens to maintain an erection” The town of Greece, however, wanted the Court to adhere to the Marsh precedent and uphold the town’s group masturbation practice.
No word yet it this affects government spending on lube.
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