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The Carroll County Commissioners have voted to continue a disputed policy allowing members to open their meetings with sectarian prayers.
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Read More »Carroll County Commissioners revert to disputed prayer policy
The elected leaders of a rural Maryland county voted unanimously Thursday to revert to a disputed prayer policy following a U.S. Supreme Court decision allowing clergy to invoke specific deities in opening invocations at government meetings.
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Read More »Court reversal sought in Md. public prayer case
A legal battle over Christian prayer at Carroll County government meetings goes on, despite the Supreme Court's ruling in a similar case in New York state.
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Read More »High court ruling favors prayer at council meeting
Prayers that open town council meetings do not violate the Constitution even if they routinely stress Christianity, a divided Supreme Court ruled Monday.
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Read More »Contempt order sought in Carroll County public prayer case
The American Humanist Association is asking a federal judge to hold the Carroll County Commissioners in contempt for violating his order barring them from opening meetings with sectarian prayers.
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Read More »Legislative prayer slated for Supreme Court review
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court, which asks for God’s protection before every public session, will settle a dispute over prayer in the halls of government. The case being argued at the court Wednesday involves prayers said at the start of ...
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Read More »Supreme Court takes up question of town meeting prayer
In a case from a small upstate New York town that could have repercussions across Maryland and on the floor of Congress, the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether prayers at open public meetings violate the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause.
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Read More »Carroll Co. residents sue over prayers at county meetings
WESTMINSTER — Two Carroll County residents are suing to stop prayers to Jesus Christ before meetings of the Board of Commissioners. The two residents say they filed suit Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Baltimore claiming the sectarian prayers are ...
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Read More »At public meetings, fights over prayer drag on
WASHINGTON — It happens every week at meetings in towns, counties and cities nationwide. A lawmaker or religious leader leads a prayer before officials begin the business of zoning changes, contract approvals and trash pickup. But citizens are increasingly taking ...
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Read More »Charles C. Haynes: A student’s hard lesson in religious freedom
At the tender age of 16, Jessica Ahlquist has already endured more verbal abuse than most people experience in a lifetime. A high school student in Cranston, R.I., Jessica has been taunted and threatened at school, targeted by an online ...
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