Indiana: Southport mayor, council at odds over public prayer
Jason Thomas reports at Indy Star:
A debate over prayer in government meetings will take center stage in this small Far-Southside city tonight as a new mayor and a skeptical City Council try to find common ground.
Four weeks ago, all five Southport City Council members walked out of their monthly meeting in protest of first-year Mayor Rob Thoman’s continuing refusal to present a prayer as has been done for nearly two decades at the start of the public sessions. (…)
The issue has drawn interest from the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana, which represented a group of taxpayers who sued the Indiana House in 2005 and challenged a sectarian prayer at the Statehouse.
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