NC: Board weighs prayer issue

Winston-Salem Journal: “The Forsyth County Board of Commissioners will decide on Feb. 22 whether to appeal a U.S. District Court ruling that forbids sectarian references in prayers at the start of board meetings. … A national group called the Alliance Defense Fund is paying the county’s legal bills, but won’t cover payments to the plaintiffs for damages or legal expenses should the county lose. … Commissioner Walter Marshall attacked the motives of some who want to appeal, saying that the ADF and groups on the Christian right are using the prayer issue as a front to establish a ‘theocracy’ in America.”