According to World Net Daily, a board of county commissioners in North Carolina is asking the Supreme Court for help. Its members don’t believe they should have to forbid volunteers from mentioning the name of Jesus in prayers offered before their meetings.
But the American Civil Liberties Union and Americans United for Separation of Church and State are standing by their victory in a U.S. circuit court decision that states even "a solitary reference to Jesus Christ" in invocations before the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners’ meetings could do "violence to the pluralistic and inclusive values that a defining feature of American public life."
Judge James Harvie Wilkinson III in the Forth Circuit Court of Appeals wrote that invocations offered in Jesus’ name are inherently "sectarian" and thus should be censored lest they make some attendees feel "uncomfortable, unwelcome and unwilling to participate in ...public affairs."
So as you see, the movement to remove Christianity from our society moves on. I wonder what would have been the case if someone prayed to Allah?
I have no way of knowing what the outcome on this case will be, but I do have a suggestion. Pray in Jesus name if you want to. This is the kind of civil disobedience we could use a little more of.
What would Jesus say? He might say that his name has been unconstitutional ever since He came.
At least they are not feedings the Christians to the lions in America - yet.
I hope if a lion eats me, he gets an upset stomach.
PMO
2011
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