Lawsuit seems to have stopped Franklin County board's prayers
Source: St Louis Post Dispatch
"Terri Kreitler, a Jefferson County councilwoman who coordinates the county's invocations, said both pastors and priests have given prayers. Kreitler said she wants to be inclusive and has even searched for a rabbi in the area.
"But I haven't found one yet," she said.
St. Charles County also invites local pastors for an invocation at County Council meetings. John Sonderegger, a county spokesman, acknowledged that the invocations were "mainly a Christian thing" but said he wasn't aware of any complaints.
The issue of prayer and government has been the subject of high-profile cases lately. This month, the town of Greece in upstate New York was found by a federal appeals court to have violated the Constitution by opening meetings with prayers that almost always were Christian.
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You know what's bigger than you are, the universe that created you...
My biggest problem with prayers is the waste of time humans spend on them. Think of the hundreds of millions of hours people spend praying a year. If we could focus that energy constructively there would be zero trash along any roadway 
