To: Joyce Morgan, Jacksonville City Council Member

Ask the City Council to respect all the citizens of Jacksonville

The Jacksonville, Florida City Council has opted to have invocations at their meetings. The Greece v. Galloway SCOTUS decision says that city councils can have prayers at their meetings as long as they invite the entire community to take their turn at giving an invocation. As of August 10th of Lori Boyer's term as city council president, we've only had Baptists give the invocation. I would think one Baptist a year would be enough so that the other meetings would allow the council the opportunity to reach out to all the minority religions in the city. Let's please respect the religious clauses of our First Amendment to the Constitution. The city council should either have NO prayers or rotate the invocation in such a way that no religion is repeated until every religion has had the opportunity to be represented during the invocation period. One Baptist a year is enough. Please choose from the other groups. Here are some of the groups in Jacksonville:
Congregations--Adherents
Catholic Church
African Methodist Episcopal Church
Methodist
Assemblies of God
Presbyterian
Episcopal Church
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Churches of Christ
Muslim
Church of God
Seventh-day Adventist Church
Conservative Judaism
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Lutheran Church
Reform Judaism
Hindu, Indian-American Hindu Temple Association
Buddhism, Mahayana
Vineyard USA
Buddhism, Theravada
Church of God in Christ
Church of the Nazarene
Hindu, Traditional Temples
Christian and Missionary Alliance
Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ
Presbyterian Church in America
Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America
International Pentecostal Holiness Church
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
Orthodox Judaism
Church of God of Prophecy
Orthodox Church in America
Buddhism, Vajrayana
Baha'i
Evangelical Free Church of America
United Church of Christ
Serbian Orthodox Church in North America
Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod
Coptic Orthodox Church
International Churches of Christ
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
Salvation Army
Congregational Holiness Church
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Community of Christ
Armenian Church of North America (Catholicosate of Etchmiadzin) Foursquare Gospel, International Church of the
Reconstructionist Judaism
Christian Reformed Church in North America
Hindu, Post Renaissance
Church of the Brethren
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church
Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church
Metropolitan Community Churches, Universal Fellowship of
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.
Friends General Conference
Zoroastrian
Sikh
Korean Presbyterian Church Abroad
Jehovah's Witnesses
New Apostolic Church of North America
Unity Churches,
First Coast Freethought Society (Humanist)

Why is this important?

I feel that allowing various groups to give a 3 minute inspirational message at the city council meetings would help my lovely city be more tolerant. Certainly allowing only the Baptists to give invocations is a violation of the First Amendment to the Constitution.