“Defendants intended to promote prayer,” the plaintiffs’ attorneys wrote in a court brief. “That is a religious purpose and ‘is dispositive’ of its unconstitutionality.”
A federal appeals court Friday directed a district judge to reconsider a ruling that said a 2014 prayer vigil backed by the Ocala police chief was unconstitutional.
The court cited the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade. The Georgia law has exceptions for rape and incest and when the mother's life is at risk.
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