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

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January 17, 2012

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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