Another California town is standing up to an atheist group over city council prayer.

The Freedom from Religion Foundation had threatened Lodi, California, with a lawsuit if it did not stop the practice of praying in Jesus' name. Captain Gordon James Klingenschmitt of PrayinJesusName.org tells OneNewsNow the council approved the ban, but public pressure resulted in a change of heart.

"The city council of Lodi, California, voted 5-0 to reverse their temporary ban on prayer in Jesus' name," he explains. "They had for the last three months outlawed the words 'Jesus' or 'Christ' or 'Savior' as illegal speech that cannot be uttered during a prayer at a city council meeting"...