City officials adopt recommended 'invocations policy' despite threats (Evangelical Examiner)

Evangelical Examiner:  "The Alliance Defense Fund has announced that La Crosse, Wisconsin City Council has adopted an invocations policy after receiving legal counsel from ADF attorneys that will allow the council to continue opening public meetings with prayer.  The Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation threatened to sue the city over the practice.

'America’s founders opened public meetings with prayer.  Public officials today should be allowed to do the same,' said ADF Senior Legal Counsel Mike Johnson.  'The Freedom From Religion Foundation’s demands that any trace of religion be wiped from the public square simply do not comport with the law or this nation’s history.'”

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