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Commissioner urges broader invocations; chair points to Resolution 2020-37 and work session review
Summary
Commissioner Gillespie asked the City Commission to consider alternatives to exclusively Christian pastor-led invocations, citing a humanist invocation previously read by Charlene Bennett; the chair cited Resolution 2020-37 and said the matter could be discussed in a work session.
Commissioner Gillespie asked the commission to consider alternatives to recurring Christian pastor invocations and to be open to invocations from other faiths or humanist readings. "We should not we should not be confined to Christian pastor invocations in this body," Gillespie said, pointing to a humanist…
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