TN: Fighting for prayer in Sevier

Knoxville News Sentinel: “[Mayor Larry] Waters received a letter dated Feb. 17 from AU that said two complaints had been filed about Sevier County: first, the Lord’s Prayer is recited, and second, that a ‘religious poster’ (the Ten Commandments) is displayed in the County Commission meeting room . . . ‘It’s amazing that, in a country founded on religious liberty, the centuries-old choice to open a public meeting with a prayer of the giver’s choosing is coming under attack,’ said ADF Senior Legal Counsel Mike Johnson in a 2007 news release.”