Tag Archives: National Day of Prayer
The Paranoid Protectors of Prayer Pounce (and a Patronizing Postscript)
If you didn’t read my blog earlier this week, you missed the exciting announcement that the National Day of Prayer (as Congressionally mandated) has been declared unconstitutional by a federal judge. Go read up on the decision to truly appreciate this post. As I predicted when I posted on Thursday, the right wingers are all […]
Take That, National Day of Prayer! Booyah!
I just got an email from Americans United for Separation of Church and State praising a federal district court for striking down the congressionally mandated National Day of Prayer. (More of my thoughts below.) In the decision (PDF), U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb said the following of the law: It goes beyond mere “acknowledgment” of […]