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Chesterfield County’s long-contentious and previously litigated prayer policy is facing new allegations that it violates the U.S. Constitution despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling this month that upheld a New York town’s right to hold Christian invocations before its board meetings.

The American Civil Liberties Union and Americans United for Separation of Church and State sent county leaders a letter Thursday stating that the county’s policy must be changed to allow any person from any faith to pray before public meetings for the county to comply with the First Amendment.

The county will consult with its attorney on that particular point, but County Administrator James J.L. “Jay” Stegmaier acknowledged that another portion of the policy prohibiting prayers specifically praising or opposing one religion appears at odds with the Supreme Court’s new guidance.

In a shift from its previous guidance that prayers be generic, Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in the Supreme Court’s decision that local governments “cannot require chaplains to redact the religious content from their message to make it acceptable for the public sphere.”

“As I understand the decision, you can’t impose that kind of restriction, so that would be a change in practice,” Stegmaier said.