CA: Huntington Beach Looks To Limit Who Leads Prayers Before Meetings

[RandySF]

A majority of Huntington Beach City Council members are looking to crack down on what they’re calling highly politicized invocations – the prayers and speeches delivered at the beginning of their meetings.

They are directing the city manager and city attorney to come back with a policy to create a list of religious leaders, evaluate those leaders and create a rotating system for them to offer prayers at city council meetings.

“In very recent years, the greater Huntington Beach Interfaith Council, which the city has utilized for invocations has become highly political and invocations at times have become political soapboxing opportunities,” said Councilwoman Gracey Van Der Mark at the Feb. 21 meeting.

Maneck Bhujwala, president of the interfaith council, said in a Friday interview that council members didn’t speak to the group before requesting the change.





https://voiceofoc.org/2023/03/huntington-beach-looks-to-limit-who-leads-prayers-before-meetings/

[niyad]

1. OR, skip the praying completely. You know, that whole separation thing.

[LoisB]

2. Right.

[Sky Jewels]

3. Yeah, time to stop praying in secular, governmental settings.

No sky wizard is listening anyway.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

4. Don't want to spend my money there anymore as HB becomes a little Florida

[HariSeldon]

5. Not only must they have prayers, but the right kind of prayers

This is absolutely a fascist move. They don't want any pins poking at their bubble that might make them have a compassionate thought or vote.