Re: Another Nail

"nick c" <nchen711@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:hqb42t$hde$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
WaIIy wrote:

Judge Barbara Crabb of United States District Court in Madison ruled
Thursday that the National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional. Judge
Crabb issued the ruling in a lawsuit brought by an atheists and
agnostics group, Freedom From Religion Foundation, against former
President George W. Bush’s administration. The group, based in Madison,
argued that the day violated the separation of church and state.
Congress established the day in 1952. In 1988, it set the first Thursday
in May as the day for presidents to issue proclamations asking Americans
to pray.

As I recall, the day of prayer didn't define a mandatory specific religion to use when offering a prayer and that praying was a voluntary action, not a law. Asking people to pray is not requiring people to pray. The Judge was wrong.

Amazing how the religious seem to think that everybody has a religion.

Prayer is an inherently religious concept and not everybody is religious. Having a national day of prayer ostracizes those without a religion. It establishes a government favoritism to those with a religion over those without.


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