The Hartford City Mosque Council

Recently the city of Hartford had decided to open council meetings with Muslim prayers in an attempt to show tolerance toward Muslims in the wake of opposition to the proposed "Ground Zero" Mosque.  In the wake of public outcry the council is reconsidering their "outreach.  It seems the concept of "separation of church and state" only applies to "church".  I suppose since a mosque is not a church, the often quoted out-of-context Jeffersonian prohibition was not immediately obvious.