Commissioner stands up to ACLU’s concerns about prayer
City commissioner and Richmond pastor Robert Blythe said Tuesday he would not sit quietly in the wake of the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky’s request to stop invocations from being given before the start of each regular commission meeting.
Blythe was showered with applause after reading a written statement in response to the ACLU’s August letter to Richmond city commissioners.
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“It is wrong of us not to provide some discretion of spirituality in our meetings,” he said. “We did not get here on our own. It (having an invocation) is done at a state level, it is done at the federal level and I feel we should resume doing it here.”
Commissioner Bill Strong said he would be honored to second Blythe’s motion that the invocation — including requests for volunteers to deliver the invocation — be added to the agenda for the next meeting.
The motion passed unanimously.
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Posted by loboinok on November 30, 2009 1:00 am
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