Finding Diversity

I have long since come to have a great disdain for the word “diversity.” That is especially true when we are discussing the makeup of spirituality.

There is a town in upstate New York named Greece. They had two (2), I repeat, two (2) complaints at City Hall regarding the opening prayer for City legislative meetings. The two (2) felt disenfranchised that the prayers were “Christian,” as I suppose is opposed to more “diverse” prayers.

Now the Supreme Court of the United States of America (because they obviously have nothing else to do) will hear a case that comes out of the ruling by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals [that] said the town should have made a greater effort to invite people from other faiths to open its monthly board meetings. (Associated Press)

The Court went on to say, the town should have expanded its search outside its borders. (IBID.) [emphasis mine]

A town employee each month selected clerics or lay people by using a local published guide of churches. The guide did not include non-Christian denominations, however. The court found that religious institutions in the town of just under 100,000 people are primarily Christian, and even Galloway and Stephens (the two complainers) testified they knew of no non-Christian places of worship there. (IBID.)

In one year,  four of 12 meetings were opened by non-Christians, including a Jewish layman, a Wiccan priestess and the chairman of the local Baha’i congregation. (IBID.)

I am hoping the Supreme Court will, at last, clear up the vexing problem of “how far we have to go” in this Country to find enough “diversity,” just to make it fair for the “two or three” who prefer Godlessness.