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Fourth Circuit Upholds City Council's Ban on Sectarian Prayer to Open Meetings

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The Fredericksburg, VA's City Council instituted a rule that opening prayers must be nondenominational in deference to the First Amendment's prohibition on government-sponsored religious preference. Ruling on a councilman's challenge, the Fourth Circuit determined that "because the prayers at issue here are government speech", the ban is constitutional, and does not violate the plaintiff's free speech or free exercise rights. The decision paves the way, some believe, for the Supreme Court to step into this controversial debate.

Full post as published by Blog From The Capital on July 24, 2008 (boomark / email).

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