Court Permits Religious Bigotry in Board Prayers

Court Permits Religious Bigotry in Board Prayers: "The appeals court based its ruling on Marsh v. Chambers, a 1983 Supreme Court decision that ruled nonsectarian legislative prayer is generally constitutional. The 4th Circuit wrote that Chesterfield County has done a good job of including leaders from a variety of religions to offer opening prayers and therefore abided by the Constitution by not advancing any one faith.
It's 'not advancing any one faith' to insist on prayers made to a god consistent with one religious tradition?
The court's reasoning was basically this: Marsh v. Chambers upheld as constitutional a situation where a legislature had prayers delivered by one Christian denomination. If that is OK, then prayers delivered by several Christian denominations must be even better. The fact that only one religious tradition is represented and a member of a minority faith is deliberately excluded doesn't matter. According to the 4th Circuit Court, the state can do this. "