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A federal appeals court refused the Indiana House speaker's motion to stay an order banning sectarian prayer in the Indiana House of Representatives while the appeal is heard. House Speaker Brian Bosma said he expected the ruling and does not expect to get "relief" until the case reaches the Supreme Court. Click here to read the report.
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[T]hose who received "intercessory prayer" had the greatest success rate. The study, carried out between April 1997 and April 1998, involved 150 patients who had all undergone angioplasty - whereby a balloon is positioned in a hardened and narrowed artery and inflated to force it open. This procedure was followed in all cases by coronary artery stenting - which involves a flexible mesh tube being inserted into the artery to keep it open.
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Earlier in the case, Bosma rebuffed leaders of the state's Jewish community when they came to protest his support of the prayer policy. How small a percentage of Indiana's population were the Jews, Bosma famously demanded.
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