County "approved" religion for Official Prayers

[Mari333]

http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/commentary.aspx?id=11795


County's 'approved religions' for official prayer: dangerous and wrong
Inside the First Amendment

By Charles Haynes
First Amendment Center senior scholar
08.10.03
Only “approved religions” get to offer an invocation before the Board of Supervisors in Chesterfield County, Va. Pray to one God and you’re in; pray to many Gods and you’re off the list.

That whirling sound you hear is Thomas Jefferson and James Madison spinning in their graves.
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[opihimoimoi]

1. The Fools

Don't they know its bad luck to exclude Wiccans. Ob Lordy, Bad karma big time.

Come, we get Duck Tape... quack

[Liberator_Rev]

2. Hillarious, opihimoimoi !

[Festivito]

3. They should be subject to civil rights charges.

I disagree with, well, just about everyone at DU on how to interpret the first amendment, but, I agree that this is wrong. The individual should be stronger than the government in regard to practicing religion with no other individual given a higer right over the right of that individual. And, they transgress civil rights in regard to making law establishing religion.