It’s ‘something that has been going on in our nation’s history since before the Constitution was even drafted’
By Bob Unruh
You just can’t stereotype California. In a state known derogatorily as the land of “fruits and nuts,” where anti-Christian agendas are common, where faith often is considered a defect, one school district has gone into court to restore opening prayer to its board meetings.
Joel Oster, of Advocates For Faith & Freedom, said in an interview with CBN that the dispute centers around the Chino Valley Unified School District.
It believes an injunction from the 9th U.S. Court of Appeals barring those invocations is wrong.
And the ban should be removed, the case argues.
“About 10 years ago, a lawsuit was filed against Chino Valley claiming that their practice of opening up a school board meeting with prayer violated the Establishment Clause, and the Ninth Circuit agreed and entered an injunction, and they based that injunction on what is called the Lemon Test,” the lawyer explained in the report.
However, that “Lemon test” standard later was abandoned, in the Joe Kennedy case, by the Supreme Court.