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In a letter sent yesterday to the Roanoke County, Va., Board of Supervisors, Americans United advised that recent comments by board member Al Bedrosian suggesting that he would like to exclude non-Christians from offering pre-meeting invocations run counter to the U.S. Supreme Court’s May 5 ruling that permits local government boards to open their meetings with sectarian prayers. “It’s no surprise that as soon as the U.S. Supreme Court kicked the door wide open for government-sponsored prayer, a local board would try to limit its prayers to Christians only,” said the Rev. Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United. “This is why the decision is so troubling, and I can imagine we will be seeing a lot of ‘Christians only’ talk from local boards.”
Posted on: Fri, 09 May 2014 14:51:57 +0000

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