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WASHINGTON The Supreme Court is wrestling with the appropriate role for religion in government in a case involving prayers at the start of a New York town s council meetings.The justices engaged in a lively
botella stanley give-and-take Wednesday that highlighted the sensitive nature of offering religious invocations in public proceedings that don t appeal to everyone and of governments efforts to police the practice. The court is weighing a federal appeals court ruling that said the Rochester suburb ofGreece, N.Y., violated the Constitution because nearly every prayer in an 11-year span was overtly Christian. The tenor of the argument indicated the justic
stanley canada es would not agree with the appellate ruling. But it was not clear what decision they might come to instea
stanley becher d.Justice Elena Kagan summed up the difficult task before the court when she noted that some people believe that every time the court gets involved, things get worse instead of better. Greece is being backed by the Obama administration and many social and religious conservative groups in arguing that the court settled this issue 30 years ago when it held that an opening prayer is part of the nation s fabric and not a violation of the First Amendment. Some of those groups want the court to go further and get rid of legal rules that tend to rein in religious expression in the public sphere.On the other side are the two town residents who sued over the prayers and the liberal inte Ljgy No apologies: Bachmann defends HPV remarks
Senator John McCain, back from a Thanksgiving visit to Iraq, said Monday there are signs of progres
stanley quencher s though the country remains mired in corruption and U.S. commanders anticipate increased violence from a desperate al Qaeda.The Republican presidential candidate said Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was more upbeat than I ve seen him in the past. Still, McCain said he and other members of a congressional delegation made it clear that al-Maliki needed to show political advances. So we ll see what the Iraqi government does, McCain said at a lunch with reporters at his campaign headquarters in Arlington, Va. He had been a vocal critic of former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld s strategy in Iraq and had called for the United States to increase
stanley cup the number of troops in Iraq. Earlier this year, following Rumsfeld s resignation, the Bush administration did boost its military presence, and violence has been reported to have decreased somewhat.McCain has used his stance on the war to distance himself from Bush while at the same time making note of the gains under the current troop surge. There s been dramatic improvement. Frankly, more improvement than I thought there d be, even though as you know I strongly supported this change in strategy, and things are much better, the candida
copo stanley te told Early Show co-anchor Harry Smith.He said Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, in joining other Democrats critical of the troop increa
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