LINK Can police promote public prayer? An appeals court may soon allow it
A seven-year battle over the legality of a government-led public prayer vigil will soon be coming to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
This saga began in 2014, when Greg Graham, chief of the Ocala Police Department in Florida, posted an unusual letter to the department’s Facebook page. Co-signed by community development director for the Ocala/Marion County Family YMCA Narvella Haynes, the letter called for public prayer after a particularly troubling string of crimes in which children were injured:
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