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Thursday, August 18, 2005
Wiccan sues over town
councils prayer and wins
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
GREAT FALLS, South Car
olina—A small SoutL Caroli
na town is facing a hefty legal
bill after losing a battle over
whether it should stop using
Jesus Christ’s name in
prayers before council meet
ings.
The U.S. Supreme Court
refused in June to hear the
town’s appeal of a lower court
ruling over the prayers.
Now Darla Wynne wants
Great Falls to pay her more
than $65,000 to cover legal
bills. A judge is expected to
rule on the matter within the
next two months.
Wynne, who describes her
self as a ^ccan priestess,
sued Great Falls in 2001, say-
mg the tovm violated the sep
aration between church and
state by using the name
Jesus Christ in prayers
because it promoted one reh-
gion over the other.
The money is not covered
by insurance, and it is
imclear where the town
about 2,200 residents would
get the cash. The amount is
about 7 percent its annual
budget.
‘TfU be an enormous under
taking for us,” town attorney
Midiael Hemlepp said.
Wynne’s lawyer said attor
neys had incurred only about
$18,000 in expenses before
the town decided to appeal.
‘We spent two 5^ars in extra
htigation while they went to
the U.S. Supreme Court, and
I think the case was clear
from the beginning,” said
attorney Herbert Buhl.
The Rev. Michael Sellers,
pastor of Evangel Tfemple
Assembly of God, said most of
the town supported the coun
cil’s decision to keep fighting.
Man dies after robbery attempt
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said.
^tnesses told pohee the
men fled in a maroon vehicle,
Wade said.
A preliminary investigation
revealed Middleton died of
sev^^ head trauma, Hinds
County Coroner Sharon
Grisham-Stewart said. If an
autopsy confirms Middleton
died as a result of injuries
. fiom the assault, his death
will be ruled a homicide, she
said.
The Rev. Arthur Sutton,
pastor of Progressive Baptist
Church, said the men
accused of assaulting Middle-
ton were trying to be good
Samaritans, ‘but it turned
bad on than.”
“They did what they
thou^t was right in their
hearts to do,” Sutton said.
Three windows at the
church were damaged, but
were repaired Thursday Sut
ton said.
Nation of Islam leader agrees with
Mexican president’s statement that
offended many African Americans
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MILWAUKEE-Nation of
Islam leader Louis Far-
rakhan says Madcan Presi
dent Wcente Fox was correct
J when he said in
May that Mexi
can immigrants
take jobs that
- blacks do not
want.
Althou^ Fox
was sharply
criticized for his
remarks by
some black American leaders,
F arrakhan asked a crowd
Sunday during an appear
ance at Mercy Memorial Bap
tist Church: ‘Why are you so
foolishly sensitive when
somebody is telling you the
truth?’
Farrakhan said blacks and
Farrakhan
Latinos should form an
alliance to correct differences
and animosity between the
two communities.
He said blacks do not want
to go to California to pick
finiit because they already
‘^idjed enough cotton.”
Farrakhan, who spear
headed the Million Man
March that drew hundreds of
thousands of people to Wash
ington, D.C., in 1995, was in
Rfilwaukee to promote the
Millions More Movement,
which has scheduled a rally
Oct. 15 on the National Mall
in Washington. He xirged fel
low blacks and people of other
races to take part in the
reimion of the event held 10
years ago.
‘Why should we have a Mil-
hons More Movement? The
United States is the greatest
nation in the world. But
today America is losing
fiiendship all over the world,”
he said.
Farrakhan also called upon
blacks to provide goods and
services within their commu
nities instead of giving their
money to merchants of differ
ent races.
“In our community, we have
those fium the Middle East
and those firom Asia... getting
up shops and providii^ goods
and services we should be
providing for ourselves,” Far
rakhan said.
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