Over the years the state of Connecticut, as well as most other public venues, have banned prayer based on a Jeffersonian reference to the "wall of separation" as it applies to church and state. Who would have thought that the impetus for enforcing a purely secular environment at Hartford City Council meetings wasn't to protect the state from religious interference, but rather the absence of a religion the Nutmeg State's capital found tolerable.The Common Council has decided to act on behalf of "solidarity," not with traditional Judeo-Christian faiths, which thus far have been anathema, but rather with Islam. In September, the New England town of Hartford has invited "local imams to perform Islamic invocations at the beginning of the Council meetings."The Hartford City Council weighed in on the 9-11 mosque issue and registered condemnation of mosque disapproval by exclusively tolerating Muslim prayer alone.Based on the contents of an email sent to...(Read Full Post)