Federal court in Tenn. upholds prayer before public meetings
Wednesday, Apr 22, 2015
The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom allied attorney Bryan Beauman with Sturgill, Turner, Barker & Moloney, PLLC, regarding a federal court’s decision Tuesday in Coleman v. Hamilton County Government that upholds prayer before public meetings in Hamilton County, Tennessee:“Since this nation’s founding, public meetings have been opened with prayer. We commend the court’s decision to affirm this freedom as constitutional, as 6th Circuit did in this case in 2013 and as the U.S. Supreme Court so recently did in a similar case. A prayer offered according to the dictates of the giver’s conscience as part of a policy like Hamilton County’s is not an establishment of religion. Those who argue that it is are essentially arguing that America’s founders were violating the Constitution as they were writing it.”
Alliance Defending Freedom is an alliance-building, non-profit legal organization that advocates for the right of people to freely live out their faith.
Alliance Defending Freedom is an alliance-building, non-profit legal organization that advocates for the right of people to freely live out their faith.
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