"The plaintiffs don't want to give the prayers," responds Douglas Laycock, who represents those challenging the prayers. The town's claim of equal access, he says, is a myth – the board never announced that all comers were welcome to deliver the invocation, nor does it publicize its policy. "The prayers here advance Christianity and they proselytize Christianity," Laycock says. Laycock, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law and one of the nation's leading scholars in this area, will tell the justices that town board meetings are very diff...