Martin Special Prosecutor said that the first thing she did with Trayvon's

[The Magistrate]

83. The O.P., Ma'am, Presses A Line Far Too Hard

The action described was among people who apparently share a common religious belief. It imposed nothing on anyone. It probably made the parents of the murdered child feel they could trust this new figure in the case, to share this ritual with her, and such trust in this situation is not guaranteed; these people have excellent reason not to trust Florida law enforcement at this point.

If, on meeting the family, the prosecutor had said, 'let's bow our heads in a prayer to God' and the parents had said something ranging from 'let's not' to 'fine, Mecca's that way' and the prosecutor had proceeded to disregard their expressed sentiments and bow her head to invoke her own particular deity, then we would have a problem. But that is not what happened.

The O.P. seems to be under the belief that separation of church and state requires anyone working for the state to refrain from any religious expression, because some citizens ( myself included ) are not religious. But that is not the case, and is far too extreme a position to be sustained. What cannot be done is to make of prayer an official function, a thing others are compelled to join in, or feel compelled to join in, whether they wish personally to participate in it or not.