Court weighs practice of Christian prayers at meetings (Rowan County NC)

Associated Press ^ | Jan 27, 2016 3:09 PM EST | Alanna Durkin Richer

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A federal appeals court wrestled on Wednesday with whether local government leaders in North Carolina are violating the Constitution by holding exclusively Christian prayers at their meetings - the first time a court at that level has addressed the issue since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a town government's favor in a similar case in 2014.

An attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union urged a three-judge panel of the 4^th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold the lower court's ruling that the Rowan County Commissioner's practice of opening their meetings with prayers that almost always referred to Christianity was "unconstitutionality coercive."

But a lawyer for the Rowan County Commission said the recent Supreme Court decision supports its case and asked the judges not to engage in "difficult line drawing" between the church and state. ...

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“I am for socialism, disarmament and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself as an instrument of violence and corruption. I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.”

— Roger Nash Baldwin, ACLU founder

The leopards that do not change their spots will always be at it until they are stopped.

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Whoops; messed up the Baldwin quote. For “corruption”, read “coercion”.

[Just mythoughts]

Wow, some of my ancestors settled Rowan County, NC when they left the European Continent.... I am sure they are weeping for US!!!!

[DoughtyOne]

[Scrambler Bob]

local government leaders in North Carolina are violating the Constitution by holding exclusively Christian prayers at their meetings
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Fed shall make no laws ...

This is LOCAL

Next is Churches and their exclusively Christian Prayers - EEK!