A national civil rights organization has asked the Naval Academy to end its tradition of offering an official prayer during daily noontime meals that midshipmen are required to attend. ...
... This is not the first time the noontime prayer has come under fire: In June 2005, the Anti-Defamation League, a religious tolerance and civil rights organization originally chartered to fight anti-Semitism, called for ending the practice. In a letter to the school’s superintendent, the ADL described it as a mandatory prayer that violates the separation of church and state. ...
