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Article: SENATE PANEL KILLS BILL ON PRAYERS AT STATE POLICE EVENTS
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- Roanoke Times & World News
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- February 24, 2009
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Del. Bill Carrico's bid to put an end to the Virginia State
Police's regulation of its chaplains' prayers was shot down in a
Senate committee Monday.
The Senate Courts of Justice Committee voted 8-7 to kill House
Bill 2314, which would have prohibited state officials from
instructing state police volunteer chaplains to avoid referring to
religion -- including the name of Jesus Christ -- during prayers at
department-sanctioned events.
Senators voting against the measure were wary of violating the
U.S. Constitution's First Amendment against laws "respecting an
establishment of religion," but Carrico, R-Grayson County, said that
by killing his bill they were still promoting a religion -- "the ...
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