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Detroit Strip Clubs: Detroit City Council criticized for opening prayers

Last Updated: February 24. 2010 9:44PM
Detroit City Council criticized for opening prayers
Oralandar Brand-Williams / The Detroit News
Detroit — Just a day after a being accused of not being religious enough in the contentious battle over the new strip clubs ordinance, the City Council is being criticized for calling upon Jesus during prayers at council meetings.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation, a Wisconsin-based watchdog group, is blasting the council for including the name of “Jesus” in council invocations and prayers.
Rebecca Markert, a staff attorney for the 14,600-member organization said the council is violating the First Amendment that dictates a separation between church and state. A 1983 U.S. Supreme Court ruling allows prayers before government meetings so as long as they don’t promote a specific religious deity and that the invocation is nondenominational.

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