FRIDAY BLOG: Oh my gawd!
by Rome News-Tribune
Feb 22, 2013 | 560 views | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend | print
PRAYERS BEFORE government meetings are routine — Congress and the General Assembly have them although in the form of invocations by ordained clergy of any and all faiths to which, at their option, legislators can respond “Amen.” Word from Cave Spring is that the City Council there has added a new wrinkle: Requiring recitations of the Lord’s Prayer alongside the Pledge of Allegiance.

The tiny community must have no constitutional lawyers resident as, in a nation that prides itself on allowing all religions (or advocacy of none at all) this is a certain no-no. The Lord’s Prayer is not only specifically Christian, but it comes in at least three major variations in wording plus a number of other unique denominational ones. Which one is going to be used?

The Pledge with its “under God” should be sufficient to the purpose intended without adding the prayer’s “Thy will be done on Earth as it is in heaven,” perhaps as an effort to sanction the council’s sometimes bizarre actions.
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