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Familiar Voices Weigh in as Issue of Prayer Returns to Court

posted on November 5, 2013

Adam Liptak of The New York Times writes about how the upcoming Supreme Court case, Town of Greece v. Galloway, is shrouded by voices from the last Supreme Court case around legislative prayer: Marsh v. Chambers. He writes, “Thirty years ago, a state senator and a Presbyterian minister faced off in the Supreme Court over whether the Nebraska Legislature could open its sessions with a prayer. The court said yes, siding with the minister, and for three decades that settled matters…. But the actors in the earlier drama — the senator and the minister — have not left the stage.”

Read at The New York Times