Week 6: EOC: Supreme court prayer

A divided Supreme Court, debating Wednesday whether public prayers at a New York town's board meetings are permissible, looked at the country's history of religious acknowledgment in the legislature and the court's own traditions.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/06/us/supreme-court-board-meeting-prayers/

I don’t get why its such a big deal to people that they do a prayer, people say it offends them because they are not religious or they believe in a different religion, I think its been going on long enough for people to get used to, and I don’t understand what is so offensive about it, its people saying a prayer, if you don’t want to listen to it you don’t have to, just respect what others believe in and don’t complain about it and annoy anyone else who believe in that religion.

The town of about 94,000 residents outside Rochester began allowing prayers to start its meetings in 1999, after years of having a "moment of silence."

http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/06/us/supreme-court-board-meeting-prayers/

Why couldn't they just stick with this? And if people have such a big problem with it, they can go back to having a moment of silence. If 94,000 people can accept having a prayer, then why cant a ew other people accept it,  where were these people when they began accepting prayer, and after it had been accepted for so long why do they suddenly think that its inappropriate and has to change.

"It's very divisive when you bring government into religion," Stephens told CNN from her home. "I don't believe in God, and Susan is Jewish, so to hear these ministers talk about Jesus and even have some of them who personally question our motives, it's just not appropriate."

http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/06/us/supreme-court-board-meeting-prayers/

This doesn’t make any sense, they did a prayer to start the session, in what was did the ministers question their motives, and what makes it inappropriate, I don’t think there is anything wrong with saying a prayer before a session, and I’m not religious, but even if I was I’m not going to go on tv and make up reasons why I think its inappropriate, they act like its going to kill them if they don’t get what they want, so they make a huge case about why a little thing that effects nobody should be changed.