Not Impressed

I just want to say that I've been reading cases on establishment of religion from the European Court of Human Rights as well as the U.S. Supreme Court from the past couple of years and boy am I not impressed. People will find just about any excuse they can to avoid actually enforcing the Establishment Clause, or its equivalents in the European Convention on Human Rights. Seriously, in one of the USSC cases the majority relied on the contention that tax expenditures are different from outright spending of taxpayer funds. It's like they knew they'd lose, so they wanted to invent a really silly reason not to hear the case. Boy. Justice Stevens' dissent taking apart one of their cases was fun, though.