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Originally Posted by Aaron W.
This is stupidly bad reading of the laws regarding public prayers. I don't even know if I should be taking you seriously.
It's an imposition for me to sit through the recitation of the pledge of allegiance. But there are no rules that forbid that recitation as an agenda item for a public meeting.
I didn't say anything about all impositions being disallowed. Clearly they are not. Afaict, we were only discussing public prayers.
I don't see a plethora of forms of prayer and circumstances for which prayer is not allowed, unless you are going to count the same sort of thing as different things. I wouldn't count leash laws as being of many different forms because there are loads of breeds and lots of circumstance because a dog could be in a city park or a library.
I'm certainly in favor or removing the pledge of allegiance from public meetings, btw.
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Again, I can't tell if you're being intentionally stupid. I'm relatively certain that if someone in a city council meeting started singing the national anthem as the start of a meeting, it would be allowed (even if it were frowned upon). At the minimum, I see no prohibition of that act. See also group recitation of the pledge of allegiance.
I said that I'd be surprised if the new local/state rules/ordinances were specific to religious singing. If they are, then color me surprised.
I wouldn't be surprised if people/groups are flouting the rules/ordinances, or believe they don't apply to them, since I have encountered people.
I also wouldn't be surprised that religious gatherings being impacted by rules were the vast majority of the news coverage. Not many people are going to write about the imposition on people who hold karaoke to be the highest form of art.