COLUMBIA, S.C., Sept. 10 -- The South Carolina Attorney General issued the following news release:
SEP 10, 2026
(COLUMBIA, S.C.) -Attorney General Alan Wilson announced today that he has joined a 14-state friend-of-the-court brief at the United States Supreme Court in defense of the right to pray within your own home.
An Orthodox Jewish citizen in the city of University Heights, Ohio, was barred from inviting neighbors to pray at his home based on a city zoning ordinance. City officials told him he must apply for and obtain a special-use permit if he wanted to continue hosting group prayer activities. However, this citizen's faith requires him to pray three times a day with a group of ten men, known as a minyan in Hebrew. The city ordina...