House resolution would permit prayer (OneNewsNow.com)

House resolution would permit prayer (OneNewsNow.com)

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House resolution would permit prayer

Bob Kellogg - OneNewsNow - 6/11/2012 4:15:00 AM

 A U.S. congressman has proposed a House resolution supporting prayer before the meetings of school boards and other deliberative bodies.

Representative Tim Walberg (R-Michigan) recently introduced Resolution 662, which, while it is not law, states prayer before school board meetings is a protected act in accordance with the nation's founding principles.
"It's been the effort of the Congressional Prayer Caucus, of which I am a member, to begin re-informing the citizens of our country that it is okay to pray, it is okay to have religious action take place and, in fact, it goes back to the founding and framework of our country itself," Walberg tells OneNewsNow.
He cites a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, Marsh v. Chambers, that deliberative public bodies are allowed to pray.
"This is not an issue of school prayer, it's an issue of a fact that a school board -- like the legislature or Congress or the Supreme Court; a deliberative body making decisions that have the force of law -- should be, if they desire -- not mandated, but if they desire, and the community supports it -- that they should be able to open in prayer," the Republican lawmaker contends.
The resolution has 33 cosponsors, and Walberg is hoping for many more.