Meeting Erupts with Prayer

School Board Meeting Erupts With Lord’s Prayer After Woman Told She Can’t Openly Pray for Students - Faithwire Virginia residents began uttering the Lord’s Prayer in unison during a school board meeting recently after a tense exchange between a woman and a board member who implored her not to publicly pray. Video of the meeting of the Suffolk Public Schools shows what unfolded when an individual identified as Angela Kilgore sought to use some of her speaking time to pray for the public schools. Kilgore invited others to bow their heads and join her and apologized if anyone objected. That’s when Suffolk Board Chair Tyron Riddick responded by telling her, “I apologize, we can’t do that.” . First Liberty Institute and Founding Freedoms Law Center, religious freedom watchdogs, wrote a letter earlier this month to Suffolk City School Board members, asking for clarification on the board’s prayer policy. The letter said Riddick’s claim it would be unlawful to allow the prayer is improper and “mistaken.” “This understanding is mistaken,” the letter reads, in part. “In fact, the Constitution prohibits the government from excluding religious expression from a public forum; it certainly does not require such censorship.” - Lord, we pray that more people will break out in prayer at these meetings, and the Holy Spirit will be felt and heard. - "And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment." (John 16:8)