Concerning the behavior of our Vice Mayor, Peggy McMahon, during the Jan. 3 Town Council meeting, while she didn’t walk out when someone disagreed with her position this time, she did treat us to a seven-minute diatribe of misquotes of the Constitution, accusations of intolerance from those on the other side of her anti-God position, exaggerated and unsubstantiated community demographic data (60% of Fountain Hills is not religious?) and of course the usual standby, someone suing the Town.

The practice of having a nondenominational invocation is not new, it had been in practice from the beginning of Fountain Hills as a town up until this mayor put an end to it. It hurts no one and takes little time and, in my opinion, unifies, not divides, as McMahon purports.

Additionally, it was great to see a pro-business Town Council that reinstated the invocation and repealed the sign ordinance.