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Citizens sue a Tennessee County Commission over prayer |
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Written by Ansley Haman
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Chattanooga Times Free Press
TENNESSEE -- Two residents took a dispute over prayers at the Hamilton County Commission to federal court Friday.
On June 6, two residents asked Hamilton County commissioners to stop holding Christian prayers in meetings. But commissioners didn't stop and those two residents, Tommy Coleman and Brandon Jones, sued the body and County Attorney Rheubin Taylor in U.S. District Court in Chattanooga, arguing that the prayers violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
"They really should have just stopped, but we are having to do this," Coleman said Friday. "We don't want any money. We just want our attorney's fees covered."
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