The entire Sixth Circuit heard debate Wednesday over the constitutionality of a Michigan county’s practice of opening board meetings with a commissioner-led prayer, after the court vacated a three-judge panel’s ruling against the prayer and agreed to decide the case en banc. The arguments included remarks from four parties: pro se plaintiff
Appeals Court To Rule On Legality Of Michigan Government-Led Prayer
“Thomas Jefferson wrote letters and rode his horse all over Virginia and the colonies talking, convincing his contemporaries to keep God out of the constitution, and with Madison’s help, he succeeded. Ever since, my friends here have been trying to slip God back in.”
