Each sitting day of the legislature opens with two invocations followed by the Lord's Prayer, recited in a mixture of English and French. A different MLA volunteers each day to do it.

The board has an invocation, typically a prayer, at the beginning of any regularly scheduled meeting, Board President April Williams said.

But adding prayer ahead of government meetings is not a new concept, with the Supreme Court ruling more than 40 years ago that to offer an invocation doesn't violate the First Amendment.

Mendez did the same in 2013, leading to similar results. Mendez is now a senator and gave a nonreligious invocation last month that drew no complaints in the upper chamber.

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