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High Court OKs Sectarian Prayer at Town Meetings

The Supreme Court sided with the town of Greece, New York, in a case in which two of the town’s residents objected to the town’s practice of beginning town meetings with a sectarian prayer. So reports CNN.

Though technically open to all faiths, the prayers almost always turned out to be Christian. In the opinion he drafted for the majority, Justice Kennedy wrote that the controlling precedent on legislative prayer “nowhere suggested” that the constitutionality of such prayer “turns on the neutrality of its content."
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