CA: Constitutionality of prayer debate heats up in Pico Rivera

Whittier Daily News: “After a newly appointed mayor took a Bible off the dais and chose not to schedule prayer at each council meeting, the country’s 220-year-old debate over church and state has sprung up in Pico Rivera . . . ‘It’s a very black-and-white situation, clearly defined in the Constitution,’ Salcido said after the January meeting. ‘When our framers crafted the First Amendment of the Constitution, they put the establishment clause in to protect the integrity of both institutions.’”