Failed gubernatorial candidate and disgraced former Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, Roy Moore, is back in the news. This time he is asking the Hoover School Board to reinstate its practice of opening meetings with Christian prayer, despite the threat of litigation, saying he is "tired of these atheist organizations trying to remove God from our public lives." (And, presumably, of those removing contemptuous judges from the bench)
Fortunately for Hoover, it sounds like School Board President A.W. Bolt is thoughtful on the issue.
Bolt, who said in May he liked "the idea of a prayer that just recognizes a supreme being and seeks guidance and wisdom," on Wednesday said he went back to a moment of silence, at least temporarily, because the school board received a complaint from an organization. He asked Sweeney to review the matter again and conferred with other board members, and no one had any objections to his decision, he said.
"We are trying to be good stewards of our children and be cautious and prudent of what we do," Bolt said.
