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Foxx Welcomes Ruling to Allow Prayer at Forsyth County Commission Meetings

Washington, November 21, 2014
Tags: Values

WASHINGTON – Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., today issued the following statement regarding a decision by U.S. District Court Judge James A. Beaty Jr. to lift a 2010 injunction and allow the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners to return to their former policy of allowing sectarian prayer before meetings:

“Once again local officials will be able to open their meetings with prayer as long as anyone may offer the prayer and no one is required to participate. It is wonderful to know that Forsyth County’s commissioners can continue the tradition of seeking heavenly wisdom in the difficult decisions they face through an opening prayer.”

The recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in the case of Town of Greece v. Galloway reaffirmed the practice of prayer in public life.

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U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx is currently serving her fifth term as the representative of North Carolina’s 5th Congressional District and is the elected Republican Conference Secretary. Dr. Foxx is the chair of the House Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on Higher Education and serves as Vice Chair of the House Rules Committee.

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