• Cleveland City Council leans on Jesus for guidance

Cleveland City Council leans on Jesus for guidance, but a watchdog group says that’s not fair to the countless other deities waiting to pitch in some cosmic love at city meetings.buddyjesus.jpgThe council’s practice of inviting Christian pastors to open meetings with prayer is unconstitutional, says Washington D.C.-based Americans United for the Separation of Church and State. The group has tracked council since January 2007 and says city leaders repeatedly begin their sessions with Christian prayers that overwhelmingly “invoke the name of Jesus as the Savior,” according to a letter sent to council this week (PDF).