Carroll County Commissioners Go Back To Sectarian Prayers

When the Carroll County Board of Commissioners goes back to opening its meetings with a sectarian Christian prayer May 13, Commissioner Robin Bartlett Frazier will be the one giving it.

The board of commissioners voted unanimously Thursday morning to reverse its April decision and return to saying sectarian prayers at the start of its meetings. Frazier has been the most fervent supporter of opening board meetings with a prayer to Jesus Christ, even saying she would go to jail to fight a federal judge's temporary injunction halting the practice after a federal court lawsuit argued the commissioners’ Christian prayers were unconstitutional.

U.S. District Court of Maryland Judge William D. Quarles Jr. lifted the injunction Monday, a few hours after the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a 5-4 decision in Town of Greece v. Galloway that affirmed the constitutionality of the upstate New York town's opening its board meetings with mostly Christian prayers.
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