Constitutional public invocations

Traverse City Record-Eagle: “Appropriately recognizing our nation’s religious heritage and its diversity through invocations at public meetings is far from creating an unconstitutional entanglement. Secular or spiritual, it has long been recognized that public invocations serve to remind public officials of the solemn duty imposed by their offices, something worth inspiring . . . Steven Francis is an academic attorney, an adjunct professor of political science at Grand Valley State University, an allied attorney with the Alliance Defense Fund, and a Village of Elk Rapids trustee.”