Indiana Papers Defend ICLU

After a suit earlier this month by the Indiana Civil Liberties Union (ICLU) challenging overtly sectarian Christian prayers in the Indiana legislature (see prior posting), some papers in Indiana have published background articles emphasizing that the ICLU is neither anti-religious nor anti-Christian. Today the Evansville Courrier & Press carries an article titled State-Sanctioned Prayer Differs from Individual Free Speech. It quotes a Presbyterian minister who says "Christians ought to be courteous enough to respect other people's faiths." Last week, the Indianapolis Star carried a long article titled ICLU Leaders Balance Freedom and Faith. It points out that the ICLU legal director has a quotation from Isaiah on his office wall and its executive director sings in his church's gospel choir.