Chaplain-led courtroom prayers ruled unconstitutional | U.S.
(Photo: Flickr Commons/Joe Gratz) A judge has issued a decree banning a Christian Texas judge from opening his courtroom proceedings in prayer, providing a legal victory to a prominent secular legal organization. The Freedom from Religion Foundation, a Wisconsin-based nonprofit established to promote a strict separation of church and state, won a challenge to prohibit Judge Wayne Mack, a justice of the peace from an area north of Houston in Montgomery County, from opening his courtroom with non-mandatory chaplain-led prayer. U.S. District Judge Kenneth Hoyt ruled on May 21 in favor of...