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    The State of Texas v. Jesus Christ

    Texas’s refusal to allow a pastor to pray while holding a dying man’s hand is an offense to basic Christian values.
    by Elizabeth Bruenig Sep 22, 2021 4 minutes
    Source: Charles Ommanney / Getty

    Devotees to the cause of religious liberty may be startled to discover during the Supreme Court’s upcoming term that the latest legal-theological dispute finds the state of Texas locked in conflict with traditional Christian practice, where rites for the sick, condemned, and dying disrupt the preferences of executioners.

    A recent stay in has again put Texas on the defense in a series of cases about whether death-row inmates have the right to be joined by clergy of their choice in the execution chamber. Earlier this , the Court agreed to hear John Henry Ramirez’s claim that Texas’s refusal to allow a pastor to lay hands on and pray over him in the execution chamberprayer would suffice, which Ramirez protested. The Court issued a stay in a in June 2020, when another Texas inmate, Ruben Gutierrez, asked for a Catholic priest to join him as he was killed. The Court has likewise intervened in Alabama, which has

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