An atheist invoked the Founding Fathers’ belief in the consent of the governed as the basis of just government Tuesday as he delivered the invocation before a town board which won U.S. Supreme Court approval in May to start its meetings with religious invocations.
“I ask all officials present here, as guarantors of our founders’ revolutionary proclamation, to heed the counsel of the governed, to seek the wisdom of all citizens and to honor the enlightened wisdom and the profound courage of those 56 brave men” who signed the Declaration of Independence, Dan Courtney said before the Greece, N.Y., town board, according to video accounts of the meeting.
