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A city in West Virginia has agreed to pay $60,000 in legal fees in response to a lawsuit by a major atheist organization who objected to their practice of opening city council meetings with the Lord’s Prayer.
Atheist activists are frustrated over a recent speech by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, during which he discussed religious liberty and warned about the essentiality of helping nonbelievers see its value.
The fiercest advocates for church-state separation concede they were fighting an uphill battle even before the court's ruling because many districts already tolerated prayers being said in school.