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Wednesday, April 09, 2014

Md. County Will Comply With Judge's Prayer Order

WESTMINSTER, Md. (AP) -- The Carroll County Commissioners say they'll reluctantly obey a federal judge's order barring them from starting their public meetings with sectarian prayers.

The five-member, all-Republican board voted 3-2 Tuesday to use only nonsectarian prayers to open their meetings -- for now. The resolution runs through Aug. 1, when the board says it hopes the Supreme Court will have ruled on a similar dispute in New York state.

Some commissioners have routinely prayed to Jesus Christ when it was their turn to ask for divine guidance over board proceedings.
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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

How about you just keep it in your church?

Obama has to go before 2016...IMPEACH said...

But we can wear Muslim Head-gear and give our kids 1 hour of Muslim Prayer in Wicomico County Schools...

Anonymous said...

And no other child is forced to pray as a Muslim, 3:59.

Anonymous said...

@3:31

What part of "or prohibiting the free exercise thereof" do you not understand.

Sand Box John