WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund have sent an informational letter offering free legal assistance to the members of the Winston-Salem City Council after the ACLU complained about members’ opening prayers at public meetings.
“Reasonable people understand that there’s nothing wrong with opening a public meeting with prayer. Once again, the ACLU’s desire to purge Christianity from every facet of public life has reared its ugly head,” said ADF Senior Legal Counsel Mike Johnson. “Their tiresome claims that the law requires all public prayer to remain ‘neutral,’ and therefore meaningless, has no constitutional roots whatsoever.”
A copy of the informational letter mailed to Winston-Salem Mayor Allen Joines is available at
www.telladf.org/UserDocs/JoinesLetter.pdf.
“The ACLU’s radical demands that Americans, including those in public office, adhere to their view of religious expression should be ignored,” Johnson said. “As long as the ACLU continues to push their vision for a new America devoid of religion in the public square, ADF will continue to defend government officials targeted by the ACLU’s campaign of fear, intimidation, and disinformation.”
ADF is a legal alliance defending the right to hear and speak the Truth through strategy, training, funding, and litigation.
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