BURBANK COUNCIL LOSES PRAYER APPEAL.Byline: Staff and Wire Services SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden - The California Supreme Court declined on Wednesday to review a lower court's ruling that prohibits the Burbank City Council from beginning its public meetings with sectarian prayers. The high court let stand a September opinion from an appeals court, which ordered Burbank to advise anyone conducting a prayer as part of a council meeting that it may not be sectarian. The City Council in Burbank has begun its meetings with an invocation by a member of a nondenominational non·de·nom·i·na·tion·al adj. Not restricted to or associated with a religious denomination. Adj. 1. nondenominational - not restricted to a particular religious denomination; "a nondenominational church" ministerial association since 1953. Jewish Defense League The Jewish Defense League (JDL) is a militant Jewish organization whose stated goal is to protect Jews from anti-Semitism.[1] Founded by Rabbi Meir Kahane in New York City in 1968, its self-described purpose was to protect Hasidic Jews from harassment in Brooklyn, and to Chairman Irv Rubin Irv Rubin (April 12, 1945 – November 13, 2002) was chairman of the militant Jewish Defense League from 1985 to 2002. Rubin was born in Canada, but after experiencing widespread anti-Semitism in his home city of Montreal, he and his parents and sister moved to the neighborhood - now dead - and Roberto Alejandro Gandara, a supporter of strict church-state separation, sued the city after a minister delivered a prayer invoking the name of Jesus Christ Jesus Christ: see Jesus. Jesus Christ 40 days after Resurrection, ascended into heaven. [N.T.: Acts 1:1–11] See : Ascension Jesus Christ kind to the poor, forgiving to the sinful. [N.T. before a council meeting in November 1999. They won their case at trial, but attorneys for the city appealed. A three-judge panel of the 2nd District Court of Appeal ruled that mentioning Jesus Christ violated the Constitution ``because it conveyed the message that Christianity was being advanced over other religions.'' Calls to attorneys for Rubin were not immediately returned Wednesday. Burbank Mayor David Laurell said he could not comment on the decision until he had more information. |
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