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County Commissioners Will Lead Prayer Instead of Ministers

By Howard M. Friedman

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Buncombe County, North Carolina county commissioners have been discussing with their county attorney the implications of a federal court decision ruling that the invocation policy in another North Carolina county violates the Establishment Clause. Last month, a federal district court held that Forsyth County's policy as implemented advances one particular faith. (See prior posting.) Now, according to yesterday's Asheville Citizen-Times, Buncombe County will stop inviting ministers to deliver an invocation, and instead the county commissioners themselves will offer the opening prayer at each commission meeting.

Full post as published by Religion Clause on February 18, 2010 (boomark / email).

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