When it comes to the appropriateness of prayer on the agenda of public meetings, can we at least ground the discussion in a little reality? The issue is one of a governmental body officially undertaking praying during the course of its formal duties.
Objecting to that is not the same as saying that people do not have a right to pray in public as heard on 94.5 this morning and posited by local blogger Joe Guarino. Nor is it an attempt to "scrub our culture of religious symbols..." as the News & Record's Doug Clark worries. Those are straw men*.
[* "The Straw Man fallacy is committed when a person simply ignores a person's actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated or misrepresented version of that position."]
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