Comments on: Senate Chaplain Calls Upon Christian Powers To Overturn Congress http://thatsmycongress.com/index.php/2009/12/01/senate-chaplain-calls-upon-christian-powers-to-overturn-congress/ A politically independent journal of the campaigns and legislation of the United States Congress. Tue, 15 May 2012 01:43:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: zoltan de burgh http://thatsmycongress.com/index.php/2009/12/01/senate-chaplain-calls-upon-christian-powers-to-overturn-congress/comment-page-1/#comment-38208 zoltan de burgh Mon, 28 Dec 2009 07:00:55 +0000 http://thatsmycongress.com/?p=2275#comment-38208 re "violation of separation of powers" -- while I agree with your contention, the reality is otherwise and your up-tightness about this alleged "violation" amounts to the flogging of the proverbial dead horse. Meanwhile, I don't like the naming of the Episcopal Cathedral in Wash DC as the "National Cathedral." -- There is NO 'cathedral' for our nation no more than there is a Mosque, people! NOTE: "The constitutionality of the chaplains’ prayers was upheld in 1983 by the Supreme Court (Marsh v. Chambers, 463 U.S. 783) on the grounds of precedent and tradition. The Court cited the practice going back to the Continental Congress in 1774 and noted that the custom “is deeply embedded in the history and tradition of this country” from colonial times and the founding of the republic. Further, the Court held that the use of prayer “has become part of the fabric of our society,” coexisting with “the principles of disestablishment and religious freedom." re “violation of separation of powers” — while I agree with your contention, the reality is otherwise and your up-tightness about this alleged “violation” amounts to the flogging of the proverbial dead horse. Meanwhile, I don’t like the naming of the Episcopal Cathedral in Wash DC as the “National Cathedral.” — There is NO ‘cathedral’ for our nation no more than there is a Mosque, people!
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“The constitutionality of the chaplains’ prayers was upheld in 1983 by the Supreme

Court (Marsh v. Chambers, 463 U.S. 783) on the grounds of precedent and tradition. The

Court cited the practice going back to the Continental Congress in 1774 and noted that the

custom “is deeply embedded in the history and tradition of this country” from colonial

times and the founding of the republic. Further, the Court held that the use of prayer “has

become part of the fabric of our society,” coexisting with “the principles of

disestablishment and religious freedom.”

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