All right, here are media examples of hot buttons, touchy and divisive current-affairs topics that people feel strongly about:

1. The U.S. Supreme Court term that begins Monday brings a return of hot-button issues that have divided the justices along ideological lines, including the proper place for prayer in government settings, the latitude states should have in restricting access to abortion, and the influence of big money in politics.

“This is the year of the sequel,” says Kannon Shanmugam, a Washington, D.C., lawyer who argues before the court.

For the first time in 30 years, the Supreme Court will decide whether starting government meetings with a prayer violates the Constitution when the message is almost exclusively Christian.

Two women, one Jewish and the other atheist, filed a lawsuit claiming that the practice of the Town Board of Greece, N.Y., to start its meetings with a Christian prayer, amounted to government endorsement of a single faith.

“I don’t think you should have to endure religious indoctrination in order to participate in your own town government,” says Linda Stephens, one of the challengers.

But Town Supervisor John Auberger says the practice has long been upheld by the courts. “We have a rich tradition, back to our founding fathers, of opening legislative meetings with a prayer.”

- Supreme Court returns to hot-button issues in ‘year of the sequel’, NBCNews.com, October 6, 2013.

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