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GA: Senior citizens told they can?t pray before meals

By ADF Alliance Alert

Rome News Tribune: "And with that firm religious footing, Blackwelder said it would be preposterous to stop praying before meals at Port Wentworth's Ed Young Senior Citizens Center near Savannah because of a federal guideline. 'She would say pray anyway,' Blackwelder said of his grandmother. 'She'd say don't listen.' But Senior Citizens Inc. officials said Friday the meals they are contracted by the city to provide to Ed Young visitors are mostly covered with federal money, which ushers in the burden of separating church and state." Fox News: Georgia Mayor Hopes to End Flap Over Prayer Before Meals at Senior Center "Eric Johnson, a former state senator now running for governor, visited the center Monday and said a blessing outside just before lunch to roughly 50 elderly citizens. 'I told them they're not fighting this alone,' Johnson, a Republican, told FoxNews.com. 'To heck with the federal government -- we can't stop people from free practice of their faith.'"

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on May 10, 2010 (boomark / email).