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Religious prayer at McGuffey School Board draws public comment and mentions of ACLU, FFRF
Summary
Public commenters pressed the McGuffey School Board on whether prayers should open meetings. One resident told the board the Freedom From Religion Foundation and the ACLU had been contacted; another urged the board to continue invocations and called for parental consent policies.
Casey McFarland, a resident of Franklin Township, told the McGuffey School Board that the use of prayer in public board meetings can exclude members of minority faiths and said outside civil‑liberties groups had been contacted. "I know that the Freedom for Religion Foundation has been contacted. The ACLU has now been also introduced into this," McFarland said during the public‑comment period.
McFarland asked the board to consider how a prayer invoking a particular faith might feel to…
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