A Christian conservative legal group is encouraging a South Carolina school board to continue allowing members to open meetings with prayer after a secular legal organization demanded that the tradition be halted earlier this month. The First Liberty Institute, a legal nonprofit that has successfully argued First Amendment cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, sent a letter on Tuesday to the Dorchester School District Two of Summerville’s school board to offer pro-bono legal assistance. A copy of of the letter was emailed to The Christian Post. The First Liberty letter comes in response to an Aug. 3 complaint letter the school board received from the Freedom From Religion Foundation, an organization that advocates for a strict separation of church and state. FFRF objected to the school board allowing members to open meetings with prayer. Addressed to Christy Graham, counsel for Dorchester School District Two, the letter from First Liberty Institute Senior Counsel Roger Byron championed "the lawfulness of legislative prayer." He cited the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court case of Kennedy v. Bremerton School District , in which the high court ruled 6-3 that a public school football coach could kneel in prayer on the field after games. "In Kennedy […]
