From the Arkansas Times blog
My thanks to the Baptist Joint Committee, a venerable and unyielding defender of the notion that church and state should be separate, for news of a pending U.S. Supreme Court argument that could have some impact in Arkansas, depending.
In a case from New York, the court will consider the constitutionality of opening local government meetings with a prayer. It is nearly a ubiquitous practice in Arkansas.
The Baptist Joint Committee says such an exercise “violates the First Amendment and demeans genuine faith.”
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