Freedom From Religion Foundation: Establishment Clause and Prayers
Please dispute this argument. Thanks!
Praying before town meeting should not be violating culture, separation of church and state. Because every town has their long standing norms and tradition that they would like to follow before meeting get started. On the other hand where we are talking about community/town meeting, in a community variety of ethnicity are available. Due to variety of culture presence could cause conflict with town meeting. “The Founding Fathers wanted a country where individuals could practice their faith as they wished without government intrusion” (Quattlebaum,J. 2013). Because everyone has freedom to practice their religion. Anyone can refuse to participate in any prayer. Especially in community meeting where people may not like to participate in other religion prayer. I believe that prayer can be held prior to town meeting as long as, it does not force them to practice and hurt their religious feelings
Reference
Quattlebaum,J. (2013). Does a prayer before a town meeting violate the establishment clause? Retrieved from: http://www(dot)annenbergclassroom(dot)org/speakout/does-a-prayer-before-a-town-meeting-violate-the-establishment-clause
Establishment Clause and Prayers
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In the society and at the community level there are more than one religion which the people follow and believe in. this is to mean that different people have different faith based religions, while others do not believe in religion. Everyone has a right to belong to whatever religion they so choose to follow without coercion or force (Freedom From Religion Foundation, 2014). When the founding fathers, came up with the first laws of the land that have guided America to this day, their thought and aspiration were that people could live in harmony and enjoy their freedom of worship. This was relative to the fact that, America had been formed of different people all seeking a place to call their own. As different people from across the globe came in to the new world to start over, in a place where their rights were recognized (Furey, 2015).
In light of the forefathers’ aspiration for the states in the, Establishment Clause, the element of freedom of worship still holds to date and respected across all states and at the community level (Quattlebaum, 2013). Recent developments suggest that prayers in public meetings are a violation of basic freedoms and rights (Stuart, 2015).In the case that there is a community meeting it is customary to start with a word of prayer. This is not a violation of the ri...