Supreme Court leaves in place rulings that ban invoking Jesus in government meeting prayers

The U.S. Supreme Court denied cert in two government prayer cases today. Both involved prayer at local government meetings—the invocations that I’ve discussed ” title=”here” target=”_blank”>here—that tend to be religion-neutral in name but Christo-centric in practice. ” title=”countys attorneys claimed” target=”_blank”>county’s attorneys claimed that the Lord’s Prayer “is as generic and universal a prayer as can be crafted, inoffensive in its non-denominational textual statements of supplication and belief, and as all-inclusive as a prayer may reasonably be.”

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