It also authorized two student elections, the first to determine whether "invocations" should be delivered, and the second to select the spokesperson to deliver them.
The May policy provided: "The board has chosen to permit the graduating senior class, with the advice and counsel of the senior class principal or designee, to elect by secret ballot to choose whether an invocation and benediction shall be part of the graduation exercise.
Senator Burton could not say whether the governor's invocation of emergency powers was legal.
Lykos encourages defense lawyers to produce mitigation evidence before she has to decide whether to approve the invocation of the death penalty.
As the suit progressed, the district came up with several versions of a policy that now provides for the election of a student, to serve for the duration of the football season, who can decide whether to offer an "invocation and/or message" as part of the pregame ceremonies.
The parties stipulated that after this policy was adopted, "the senior class held an election to determine whether to have an invocation and benediction at the commencement [and that the] class voted, by secret ballot, to include prayer at the high school graduation"...
" 'Rather than have you out front, we thought it would be best to not have you do the invocation.' " Mr. Obama then asked whether the Rev. Otis Moss III, who would soon succeed Mr. Wright at Trinity, could speak instead.
However, it is unknown whether an explicitly religious context (e.g., invocation of a deity) is a necessary condition for a successful intervention into a disturbed state.
Yet a new figurehead is sorely needed: the evangelical movement is in a time of rapid change.When Rick Warren, the pastor of a megachurch in California, offered the invocation at Barack Obama's inauguration, many wondered whether he might fill Mr Graham's shoes as the acknowledged leader of the evangelical movement.
A subtext of it all, however, has been religion, whether it be the choice of Rick Warren to deliver the invocation tomorrow or the deep sense of spirituality that some read in Barack Obama's election.
