- AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin
- The Supreme Court voted 5-4 in favor of allowing the invocations given by local ministers before monthly town board meetings in Greece, New York.
I spent several hours Tuesday trying to work up a contrarian Bleader post that would give the Supreme Court two cheers for its 5-4 decision okaying the invocations given by local ministers before monthly town board meetings in Greece, New York. If these ministers are almost all Christian, so be it, said the court’s majority. If they address a specifically Christian God, even invoking Christ himself, so be it.
So that was what I set out to say in my post. But it didn’t write itself, and eventually I gave up. The problem came from a mistake that I’m confident many Americans with strong opinions about Greece v. Galloway were too smart to make. I read the opinions—Kennedy’s and the dissent of Justice Elena Kagan. And, inconveniently, Kagan’s is more persuasive. Kennedy lets common sense waft him along. Kagan thinks harder.
