First Amendment to the Constitution

“The question in this case is whether the prayer practice of the town of Greece by doing too little to reflect the religious diversity of its citizens, did too much, even if unintentionally, to promote the ‘political division along religious lines’ that ‘was one of the principals against evils against the First Amendment was intended to protect.’ Lemon v. Kurtzman, 403 U.S.602, 622 (1971). The town of Greece, New York failed to make reasonable efforts to include prayer givers of minority faiths, with the result that, although it is a community of several faiths, its prayer givers were almost exclusively persons of a single faith.”