And the First Amendment for the win!!!!

[cleanhippie]

US appeals court rules against NC opening prayer

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — The Forsyth County Board of Commissioners was wrong to allow opening prayers at its meetings that singled out praise for a specific deity, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.

In a 2-1 decision, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., ruled in favor of two county residents who sued after the prayer before a December 2007 commissioners meeting thanked God for allowing the birth of his son to forgive us for our sins and closed by making the prayer in the name of Jesus.

The decision upholds a lower court ruling that required commissioners to stop its pre-meeting prayers.

"Legislative prayer must strive to be nondenominational so long as that is reasonably possible — it should send a signal of welcome rather than exclusion. It should not reject the tenets of other faiths in favor of just one," Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III wrote in his ruling.

http://www.necn.com/07/29/11/US-appeals-court-rules-against-NC-openin/landing_nation.html?&apID=1dd90fb5455f476bb71cb83a29ad803d

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[struggle4progress]

1. Good.

[jimlup]

2. The real question is why the hell was the vote 2-1 and not 3-0

Some Judges shouldn't be.