Atheists Win Case Against Texas Judge and His Coercive Christian Prayers
Atheists Win Case Against Texas Judge and His Coercive Christian Prayers
BY HEMANT MEHTA
MAY 22, 2021
After a multi-year battle, the Freedom From Religion Foundation has successfully won its case against a Texas judge who opened each session with prayer.To make sense of this story, it helps to realize that the one thing a judge should never do is make one side feel like it’s not getting a fair shake in the courtroom. Both sides should expect a fair hearing and anything that detracts from that is a problem. Obviously.
And yet that was precisely what Montgomery County Justice of the Peace Wayne Mack was doing for years. In 2014, FFRF even wrote him a letter condemning his actions when he opened a court session with a five-minute Bible reading… followed by a formal prayer.