FOUNDATION FOR MORAL LAW OFFERS HELP TO BIRMINGHAM CITY COUNCIL IN RESPONSE TO ATHEIST THREAT LETTER OVER PRAYERS
April 14 , 2010
The Foundation for Moral Law (FML) in Montgomery, Alabama, founded by Judge Roy Moore, sent a letter today to the City Council of Birmingham, Alabama, and Mayor William Bell, Sr. explaining that prayers offered at city meetings are constitutional and an important part of American history. On April 8, 2010, the Wisconsin-based atheist group, Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), sent the Council a letter complaining about prayers being spoken at city meetings. FML attorney Ben DuPré told the City Council that the Constitution is on the Council's side and urged it to “continue scheduling prayers without censorship and with the full freedom of religion that the First Amendment guarantees.”
Read the Foundation for Moral Law letter defending prayer at Birmingham City Council meetings here.
Judge Roy Moore said of FFRF's baseless threat letter, “This is just another example of removing prayer from our society. I support Mayor Bell and the Birmingham City Council in their efforts to keep morality in civil government, which is something we need throughout the State and Nation.”
FML explained in its letter that radical secularist groups like FFRF and the ACLU routinely send bullying letters to city and county legislative bodies that contain distorted legal claims in the hopes of intimidating local officials into stopping prayers or at least censoring the content thereof. “In reality,” FML assured the City Council, “the law is on your side,” citing the First Amendment and the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling upholding legislative prayer in Marsh v. Chambers, 463 U.S. 783 (1983).
FML encouraged the City Council to “not be cowed by the FFRF in its nationwide crusade to remake America into its own secular, atheist image. If local bodies like the Birmingham City Council stand up to their intimidation tactics, the FFRF won't have a prayer.”
The Foundation for Moral Law, a national non-profit legal organization, is located in Montgomery, Alabama, and is dedicated to restoring the knowledge of God in law and government through litigation and education relating to moral issues and religious liberty cases.
