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North Carolina City Council Switches From Moment of Silence To Invocation

By Howard M. Friedman

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In Greensboro, North Carolina, Mayor Bill Knight has decided to end the long City Council tradition of opening each meeting with a moment of silence, and instead replace it with an invocation. Knight says he will invite people from a broad spectrum of the faith community to offer opening prayers. Yesterday's Greensboro News-Record quotes Knight's explanation: "I think this adds a very distinctly America quality and a very necessary element. We all believe in something. This is an opportunity to exercise that without infringing on the government-religion prohibition."

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

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