IL: Carpentersville Board meetings guidelines — no sectarian prayer
. . . Trustees had previously voted unanimously to include invocations on the agenda, but Trustee Paul Humpfer on Tuesday rejected the policy . . .
The policy states that “all invocations must be of nonsectarian nature” and “cannot proselytize or advance any one religion or disparage any other religious belief.”
“For example, specific references to Jesus Christ, Yahweh, Buddha or Allah would respectively be considered references to a specific tenant of Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism or Islam,” Village Attorney James Rhodes wrote in the policy . . .
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If one supports invocations of a religious nature in a political environment, how can one justify keeping religion out of politics? When we had a society that was basically moral, it was not a problem. We no longer have a moral society and morality although it can be legislated it cannot be enforced unles you have a state religion. The U.S. is approaching the install of a state religion. Question: Which religion will it be? Humpfer was right on target. Remove religious invocations from any political platform unless you support a state religion.
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