CITY LEADERS PLAN APPEAL OF RULING SECTARIAN PRAYERS BANNED AT CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS.Byline: Sylvia L. Oliande Staff Writer BURBANK - Officials plan to appeal a judge's ruling that bans sectarian prayers at City Council meetings, but the Jewish leader who challenged the invocation invocation, n a prayer requesting and inviting the presence of God. said he is thrilled a higher court will review the decision. City officials say following the guidelines set forth in the Nov. 16 ruling by Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Superior Court Judge Alexander Williams would conflict with the council's long-established process for the prayers. Mayor Bill Wiggins said the Burbank Ministerial Association, consisting of religious leaders of Christian and Jewish faiths, traditionally decides which leader will give the invocation that opens every council meeting. ``We don't tell the ministerial association whom to send, what they have to say,'' Wiggins said Thursday. ``To me, by saying (the prayer) has to be nonsectarian, we'll end up doing exactly what we shouldn't be doing.'' 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 , a leader of the 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 who brought the suit last November after hearing a minister evoke 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. , said he hoped the issue would go to a higher court. ``I hope they appeal this to the U.S. Supreme Court and have this law apply to the entire U.S. of America,'' he said. ``This is just not a place for sectarian prayers. Why they can't see the logic of this, I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. .'' City Attorney Dennis Barlow said the cost of appealing would be minimal because most of the work has already been done. But others say the appeal is unnecessary and a waste of taxpayers' money. ``I can see hundreds of thousands of dollars spent in a fruitless attempt to overturn a decision that is going to be upheld by the court,'' said Ted McConkey, a former city councilman. |
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