LINK Indiana School Board Gets Rid of Opening Prayers After Warning from Atheists | Hemant Mehta | Friendly Atheist | Patheos
For reasons that make no sense, the Griffith School Board in Indiana began its meetings with a pastor-led prayer.
Why? Who knows. Did it help the kids? Of course not. Was it illegal? Absolutely.
While invocation prayers that are open to all are permitted at city council meetings, those rules don’t apply to school boards. That’s what the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s legal fellow Joseph McDonald tried to explain in a warning letter to School Board President Kathy Ruesken last month.
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That's quite nice, but Indiana appears to have a much bigger problem, of which this is/was just one symptom. Their school voucher program is taking all sots of money from their gov't, and sending it to people who use it for religious schools.
I'm sure that Indiana is not the only state doing this, but it is relevant to the current posting.
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That’s great news.......Put them all in “T” file......T for Trash.
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