Sentences with phrase «barred by prayer»
Since what I hear over an amplified PA system (kind of hard to «ignore» 70 db invocations in a mid size room, tbh) are things in the prayer I passionately disagree with, yet barred by prayer protocol to challenge the assertions of the prayperson (which such challenges to ideas are encouraged at public meetings) it sets up a «I'm not going to get anything accomplished unless I pretend I am one of them.»
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/ Not exact matches
The U.S. Supreme Court has made the legal status of graduation prayers in public schools even more uncertain by throwing out a federal appeals - court ruling that had barred student - led prayers.
West Virginia voters had approved the amendment by a wide margin last November, but Judge Elizabeth Hallanan of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia in late February barred voluntary prayer in public schools on constitutional grounds.