WorldNetDaily - Bloomberg facing legal challenge to censorship of faith

By Bob Unruh

There's been criticism of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's decision to exclude clergy from this weekend's 10th anniversary events marking the day the Islamic terrorists struck New York, Washington and in Pennsylvania in 2001, killing almost 3,000.

It's come from the religious right and left both. Some 62,000 Americans signed petitions assembled by the Family Research Council asking him to relent. Jay Sekulow of the American Center for Law and Justice wrote that the United States "has a long and cherished history of prayer, from the first prayer in Congress in 1774 to the National Day of Prayer celebrated each year. Even the Supreme Court acknowledges our religious heritage."

But all apparently without impact on the mayor who made the decision.

Now, however, a new incentive is coming into Bloomberg's world: A lawsuit that challenges his decision on the basis of the 1st Amendment's freedom of speech and religion provisions.

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