Alabama Sheriff Defies Demand to Stop Promoting Prayer
The godless Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) has once again found itself frustrated in its efforts to squelch the constitutionally guaranteed rights of individuals to freely express their religious sentiments. In the FFRF’s latest failure, a sheriff in Alabama conspicuously disregarded a letter from the secularist group in late November expressing concern over his office’s practice of using Facebook to call on “citizens to pray during times of tragedy.”
In a pointed epistle to Walker County Sheriff Nick Smith, one of the group’s attorneys, Sam Grover, claimed that a local Walker County resident had contacted the FFRF to complain about the practice. “For instance,” recalled Grover, “a November 23 [Facebook] post regarding the senseless death of the Lowndes County Sheriff invokes the idea of prayer, while the office’s August 4 post regarding a collision between a young boy and a deputy officer...
