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MONCKS CORNER, S.C. (AP) — The Berkeley County School Board has given final approval to opening its meetings with prayer, beginning next month.
The Post and Courier of Charleston reported (http://bit.ly/2bPmd09) the board gave final approval to opening in prayer Tuesday, despite lawsuit threats.
The board had opened its meetings in prayer for years but stopped in June after Americans United for Separation of Church and State warned that such prayers violated the 1st Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
Charleston Sen. Larry Grooms and others wrote the school board in July saying a U.S. Supreme Court decision involving a town council allowed such prayers.
Future prayers will be nonsectarian and nondenominational.
The group questioning the prayer earlier said the Supreme Court case did not apply to school boards and is considering legal action.
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