Tuesday, November 06, 2007

Indiana Prayer Decision Upholds Religious Freedom

We read:

"Both sides do agree that a three-judge panel of the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals upheld the 189-year-old tradition of allowing clergy to pray at the opening of each legislative session of the Indiana General Assembly.

They also agree that the judges, in a 2-1 split, overturned a lower-court decision earlier this year requiring the speaker of the Indiana House to review prayers and remove any "sectarian" language before the prayers could be uttered from the floor.

Source

Whether the decision will have much in the way of a flow-on to other cases about public prayer remains to be seen but it clearly should.