INDIANA, (WOWO): Indiana's Attorney General has joined nearly two dozen others around the nation in asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a ruling prohibiting prayer at the beginning of government meetings.

Greg Zoeller is asking the high court to issue a ruling to provide clarity on whether the practice is legal; pointing out that various federal appeals courts have reached conflicting conclusions.

The brief was filed in a case involving an upstate New York town that a federal court ruled violated the constitutional ban against favoring one religion over another by opening nearly every meeting over an 11-year span with prayers that stressed Christianity.