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Jerome Council Mulls Invocations

Jerome’s City Council is expected to discuss, at its next meeting, whether to start opening its meetings with a prayer. Mayor David Davis said at the end of Tuesday’s meeting that he had had city attorney J.B. Lothspeich research the topic and that he wants to put it on the agenda of the next meeting in two weeks. “That’s something that I’ve thought about the past few months,” Davis said after the meeting. Davis said he started to think about it when the state Legislature’s practice of starting meetings with a prayer ended up in the spotlight earlier this year. Generally, its invocations are from a Christian pastor, although it occasionally brings in people of other faiths. This drew nationwide media attention during the 2015 session when a handful of state senators refused to attend an invocation given by the Hindu religious leader Rajan Zed/Nathan Brown, Twin Falls Times-News. More here.

Question: Do you support prayer to open meetings, if all religions are allowed to participate?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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