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Filed in: Public Prayer | by Matthew Clark | 7:45 PM Jul. 11, 2012
Angry Atheists Bully Locality to Squelch Public Prayer
The atheist group Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) is at it again, attacking prayer at public meetings. This time the target of their attack was my hometown. For more than a quarter century Henrico County, Virginia had opened its Board of Supervisors meetings with an invocation, much like many other county boards and city councils around the country. After the June 12th meeting, which opened with an invocation by a local Baptist pastor, someone complained. The complaints came from two ... Continue Reading