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TX: JPL scientist gives keynote speech at Mayor?s Prayer Breakfast

By Alliance Alert

Pasadena Star-News: "Usually fairly subdued, the event, along with the city's Day of Prayer at the Rose Bowl, triggered some concern among city officials this year, following a U.S. District Court judge's ruling in Wisconsin last month that the National Day of Prayer violates the constitutional separation of church and state. That prompted Mayor Bill Bogaard to write to the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF), which provides legal defense and advocacy for religious causes, to make sure the breakfast and prayer day could be held legally. 'You can be confident that your participation in and acknowledgment of the National Day of Prayer are constitutionally protected activities,' wrote ADF attorney [J. Michael Johnson] in an April 30 response."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on May 07, 2010 (boomark / email).