Numbers and Religious Liberty
Category: RELIGION
The instructions given me were clear -- that my words should recognize the diversity present in the chamber. And that is what is disappointing about this ruling: Not its support of legislative prayer, but the low bar it establishes for a prayer's permissibility.
By Rabbi Joshua M. Davidson, ContributorSenior Rabbi, Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York, 2014-05-30