Sentence examples for official prayers from inspiring English sources

The state attorney general, Henry McMaster, filed a brief in support of a town's battle in federal court to continue referring to Jesus in official prayers at council meetings.

And they aren't children, unlike the public school students the Supreme Court has protected from official prayers and Bible devotions.

He joined in Engel v. Vitale, which declared that it was unconstitutional for states to require the recitation of official prayers in public schools.

Similarly, he authored the majority opinion in Engel v. Vitale (1962), which declared it unconstitutional for states to require the recitation of official prayers in public schools.

They had interpreted it in the 1960s and 1970s as giving women equal rights -- including a right to abortion -- as forbidding official prayers in public schools, as requiring police to warn criminal suspects of their rights, and for a time, blocking the death penalty as cruel and unusual punishment.

-- Taking off from the recent controversy over who would give the benediction at Obama's inauguration and Friday's news that a United Methodist pastor would deliver the sermon at the inaugural National Prayer Service, USA Today's Cathy Lynn Grossman reports on how official prayers at Obama events have become a "political hot potato".

That would make it an "official" prayer, with pressures to pray it.

My uncle was a plaintiff in Engel v. Vitale, a 1962 Supreme Court decision against official prayer in public schools.

There were 1555 official prayer rooms for Muslims in 2001, and the figure reached 2000 in 2006.

Together with the mass, the office has been the only "official" prayer of the Roman Catholic Church; all other prayer forms are "private," even if several hundred people recite them together.

Lay people can of course pray privately in a church in whatever way they wish, and are not required to follow the texts of official prayer books.