Ontario councils refuse to drop prayer

February 15, 2008 D. H. McKee

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This is stupid. I didn’t even know people were required to pray in council meetings… They should be stopping this behaviour for secular taxpayer-funded jobs.
Ontario councils refuse to drop prayer

Municipal councils across Ontario are defying a call for them to stop reciting the Lord’s Prayer before their meetings.
An advocacy group called Secular Ontario sent letters to 18 municipal councils in November claiming the recitation of the prayer violated a 1999 Ontario Court of Appeal ruling. Since then, only Middlesex County has abolished the prayer. Meanwhile, many others — including Durham Region, Oshawa, Peterborough and Grey County — have either ignored Secular Ontario’s warning or voted to maintain their current practice.
“I’m really quite surprised we stirred up such a hornet’s nest,” said Secular Ontario president Henry Beissel. “I thought that once government officials discovered they were breaking the law they would hasten to correct it — but that doesn’t seem to be the case.”

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