The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal from a Utah man who was denied the opportunity to offer a prayer at a city council meeting because of its content. Without comment, the court refused to hear an appeal of a lower court’s decision against the man, calling his proposed prayer “political harangue.”
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