Charles Schrader of Inverness - Brickbats - Wiccan prayers at school board meeting wins an ouster - Brief Article

Reason, Jan, 2002 by Charles Oliver

For months, Charles Schrader of Inverness, Florida, had been complaining about the local school board opening its meetings with Christian prayers. Finally, Schrader, a Wiccan, started saying his own prayers out loud during the invocations. That's when school board chair Patience Nave had him removed from the meetings, citing a state law that prohibits disrupting an educational function.