Kenai Borough Assembly keeps invocation, hears from deeply divided residents

Some children took part in the Aug. 23, 2016, protest with their parents. (Photo by Daysha Eaton/KBBI)
Invocations, or prayers, will continue to be said at the beginning of Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly meetings, despite recent debate about whether they are appropriate.
The Assembly voted at their regular meeting Tuesday not to introduce an ordinance that would have eliminated the invocation and another that would have changed the invocation to a moment of silence.
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