Cape Cod Town Allows Prayer Station At Beach Parking Lot

Today's Cape Cod Times editorializes on a recent 4-0 decision by the Falmouth (MA) Board of Selectmen to allow four local churches to combine to set up a "prayer station" in the parking lot at Old Silver Beach in North Falmouth. Volunteers staffing the booth can only talk to those who approach them, and no solicitation or proselytizing is allowed. Observers question whether the town has now turned the parking lot into a public forum which all others must now also be permitted to use for speech activities.