WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court decision allowing sectarian prayers before government meetings is prompting atheists to offer secular invocations. The court ruled 5-4 that invocations can refer to ...

Each Polk County Commission meeting begins with a prayer led by a church leader, or in some cases, with a secular invocation by an atheist group. If the commission approves a change to the process ...

Major newspapers across this country use front-page, “above-the-fold” articles for important, timely news. On June 9, The Times Leader placed a headline (“Activist seeks to send message with ‘secular ...

State Rep. Athena Salman, D-Tempe, is in the middle of a national controversy over the meaning of prayer after she gave an invocation last Tuesday to begin the daily Arizona House session. After ...

OAK RIDGE (WATE) – An East Tennessee woman says her secular invocation at the Oak Ridge City Council was cut short earlier this week. She is now urging officials to keep religion out of their ...

A federal appeals court in the District of Columbia on Friday upheld the House of Representatives’ requirement that it start each day it is in session with a religious prayer. The unanimous ruling ...

A leader of a Central Florida group of atheists, humanists and nonbelievers said he felt disrespected by Lake County officials who responded to his secular invocation at a county commission meeting ...

Sarah Ray, co-founder and director of the Atheist Community of Polk County, is scheduled to deliver a secular invocation before the Polk County Commission meeting Tuesday morning in Bartow. The group ...

ORLANDO, Fla.-The Brevard County Commission on Monday lost another legal battle over their policy of selecting speakers for meeting invocations that critics call discriminatory and unconstitutional.

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Each Polk County Commission meeting begins with a prayer led by a church leader, or in some cases, with a secular invocation by an atheist group. If the commission approves a change to the process ...