The Washington Post has an article on the issue of sectarian prayer as the official business of the Indiana House of Representatives entitled Judge Upholds Prayer Limits in Ind. State House (h/t Indiana Law Blog.)
Not a lot of new information in the article, but there were a few new comments:
“We’re just increasingly sensitive to both religious partiality in general and to evangelical Christianity’s attempt to be politically and culturally aggressive,” said George Washington University law professor Ira Lupu. “Both of those things are going on in that Indiana setting.”
“In general, politicians think that the public wants to hear more explicitly religious messages,” said Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, a liberal lobbying group. “It is much more appropriate for people who have a shared religious belief system to get together before they walk into the chambers of the city council or the state legislature and do their worship before they go about their official business.”
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