Whats At Stake? • The continuation of the public prayer tradition that began with our founding. • The freedom of community volunteers to pray according to their faith in a public setting without censorship. • The preservation of freedom of speech in the face of one offended person’s demands for censorship. • The foundational American principle of freedom of religion. The Case ~ Town of Greece v. Galloway The town council of Greece, New York has long opened its sessions with an invocation. Many volunteers from the community have chosen to pray. The invitation has been opened to everyone. However Americans United for Separation of Church and State (AU), claimed a “religious imbalance” and filed a lawsuit against the town in 2008. The AU’s clients took offense at the way people prayed. In an unfortunate opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that, because Greece is made up predominantly of Christians, it may need to censor prayers or import others from outside the community. AU and its legal allies want to eliminate public prayer or render those prayers meaningless by requiring the government to censor any language that could “offend someone,” including praying in Jesus’s name or to the God of David...
Posted on: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 17:54:39 +0000
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