Seniors Told They Can't Pray Before Meals

Seniors at the Ed Young Senior Citizens Center near Savannah, GA, have been told they can't pray before meals anymore out of fear of losing federal money for meals. From the article: "But Senior Citizens Inc. officials said Friday the meals they are contracted by the city to provide to Ed Young visitors are mostly covered with federal money, which ushers in the burden of separating church and state. On Thursday, the usual open prayer before meals at the center was traded in for a moment of silence."

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[Kral_Blbec]

Actually the principle was intended to prevent the nation as a whole from favoring one state over another. Individual states had their own state religion.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof

Note that has no mention of state legislatures, and that the current modus operandi tends to squelch any religious display at all in the name of an unconsitutional "separation".