The case Greece vs. Galloway started in 1999 when the town of Greece started opening their meetings with prayer. Most of the prayers were christian but there was not an a specific denomination required to pray and any clergy could volunteer. Then in 2007 Galloway and Stephens complained that the prayers aligned the town with Christianity and that it violated the established clause of the first amendment. They preceded to sue the town in 2008 for violating the establishment clause of the first amendment.
I am on the side of Greece because they didn’t make the prayers one denomination and any denomination could pray so it is not violating the establishment clause of the first amendment. The prayers also aren’t advancing or taking away from any religion and the establishment clause of the first amendment says “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;” so it is not going against that.
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