Speakers Confront Tampa City Council Over Government Prayer

[Rob Curry]

Fresh off the presses:

Speakers blast Tampa City Council over opening prayers

TAMPA — People who oppose starting government meetings with invocations pleaded with City Council members Thursday to end the practice.

"I'm not sure you realize how repugnant and degrading your opening prayers are for those of us without superstition," said Frank Prahl. "Why should you waste your time and insult people who don't believe as you do?"


JOIN THE DISCUSSION: Why Tampa city council invocations are wrong

[John Kieffer]

The article in the St Pete Times newspaper appeared on Jan 22 in Section B, "Tampa Bay," page 3B as the headliner of the "Metro Report," titled ...

Council silently hears atheists
Arguments against Tampa City Council's invocations are met with no response

I believe that this title, the fact that the council sat there utterly speechless throughout the process, speaks volumes of the constitutional high ground that we, as Atheists of Florida, have siezed in this issue.




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