(August 21, 2008)--The American Civil Liberties Union has urged a federal appeals panel to block a suburban Atlanta, Ga. county from allowing clergy to open meetings with Christian prayers, but the judges seemed reluctant to overturn a lower court's ruling upholding the practice.
As soon as the ACLU attorney began to argue that Cobb County went too far allowing religious prayer before meetings, the three-judge panel peppered him with questions.
Judge Charles Wilson challenged the ACLU to define the difference between prayer and sectarian prayer and Judge Donald Middlebrooks said he was concerned that adding restrictions "waters down" the prayer.
But the most outspoken among them was Judge Bill Pryor, who noted the nation's "200-year unbroken tradition of prayer" and the long history of prayer in Congress.
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