County Enjoined From Opening Board Meetings With Sectarian Prayer

ACLU reports that yesterday a North Carolina federal district court issued a preliminary injunction in  Lund v. Rowan County, barring the Rowan County (NC) Board of Commissioners from "knowingly and/or intentionally delivering or allowing to be delivered sectarian prayers" at official Board of Commissioners meetings. In March the ACLU filed suit on behalf of three local citizens complaining that 139 of the past 143 Rowan County Board of Commissioners meetings were opened with prayers that concluded with references to Jesus or other Christian concepts. (See prior posting.)  AP also reports on the decision.