A federal judge has ruled against a Florida county government's prayer policy that bans atheist invocations from its public meetings, the Christian Post website reports today (October 2, 2017).
In a decision released September 30 in "Williamson v. Brevard County," the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida concluded that the Brevard County Board of Commissioners was unlawfully limiting who could give invocations at their meetings.
"For a government entity to require, or attempt to require, 'religious' content in invocations is, in effect, that entity composing prayers for public consumption or censoring the content of prayer," the court concluded.
In agreeing with the court's ruling, Danaiel Mach, director of ACLU Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief, said on a statement: "The county's outright exclusion of nonreligious speakers was unfair and unconstitutional."
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