It’s great that the courier is carrying articles like this, they are early warning to you of things to come. When the time comes where will you come down oh, elected official, on these issues?  Get ready people. Then we will see who believes in inalienable rights and states rights and who will stand against illegitimate federal court rulings.

Court weighs practice of Christian prayers at meetings

From Courier of Montgomery County ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, Associated Press | Posted: Wednesday, January 27, 2016 2:33 pm

RICHMOND, Va. — A federal appeals court wrestled on Wednesday with whether local government leaders in North Carolina are violating the Constitution by holding exclusively Christian prayers at their meetings — the first time a court at that level has addressed the issue since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a town government’s favor in a similar case in 2014.

An attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union urged a three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold the lower court’s ruling that the Rowan County Commissioner’s practice of opening their meetings with prayers that almost always referred to Christianity was “unconstitutionality coercive.”

But a lawyer for the Rowan County Commission said the recent Supreme Court decision supports its case and asked the judges not to engage in “difficult line drawing” between the church and state.

The Supreme Court has already ruled that it’s appropriate for local clergy to deliver predominantly Christian prayers and town meetings in New York. At issue now is whether it makes a difference that the Rowan County prayers are being given by the commissioners themselves and whether their invitation for the audience to join them in prayer should be seen as coercive.

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