Supreme Court rules prayer allowed at town meetings

[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] 5-4 Monday in Town of Greece v. Galloway [SCOTUSblog backgrounder] that the practice of opening town meetings with a prayer does not violate the Establishment Clause [JURIST backgrounder] of the First Amendment [text]. The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled [JURIST report] in 2012 that the New York town's practice amounted to an unconstitutional government endorsement of religion. In an opinion by Justice Anthony Kennedy, the court...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2014/05/supreme-court-rules-prayer-allowed-at-town-meetings.php

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