I always find it entertaining, to say the least, how news trickles down from the people making the news to the people reporting the news to the man on the street. It really is a game of Telephone. Didn’t you play that as a kid? One kid whispers something in another kid’s ear, and it passes around to everyone, and then they all get a big laugh out of how messed up the original statement was by the time everyone mishears or misunderstands what they heard. Anyway, the same thing seems to happen with news. Something happens, the reporters add some spin or are too dumb to really know what’s happened, and then the man on the street hears about it and really takes it to all new heights.
Yesterday, the rumblings from the man on the street was “OMG!!!! Obama has canceled the National Day of Prayer!!! Socialist! Communist! Heathen!!!” Now it wouldn’t break my heart at all if he had, because I don’t think it’s the government’s place to be asking us to pray (which is a small step from telling us to pray, really), but the fact is no such thing is true. Obama has not canceled the National Day of Prayer … no matter what the crazy man on the street is saying.
White House officials say President Obama will recognize a National Day of Prayer this year after a federal judge ruled that the proclamation is unconstitutional.
US District Judge Barbara Crabb, in Madison, Wis., ruled yesterday that the day violates separation of church and state. The ruling comes in a lawsuit filed against the federal government by the Freedom From Religion Foundation. Crabb said her order does not block a prayer day until after all appeals are exhausted.
Obama spokesman Matt Lehrich agreed that the ruling does not prevent the president from issuing a proclamation for the day next month.
— AP, source
So if the man on the street would please kindly stop losing their minds about Obama the horrible atheistic socialist communist, I’d appreciate it. And if we could do away with the National Day of Prayer all together, I’d be just fine with that too, because not everyone believes in gods and not everyone who does believes in praying. I know, crazy ain’t it? In the view of many, a national day of prayer is just as obnoxious as I am certain the overtly religious would find a national day of non-religion when everyone is told NOT to pray. So how about we leave the religion out of our government on the whole?
Oh my, yet another person who believes they are the center of the universe, and who without them nothing can exist. Actually Orb most polls are in favor of a day of prayer, most people believe there is a God, and most are not anti-religion. I think Judge Crabb should become more familiar with the 1st Amendment to the Constitution. A day of prayer does not establish a religion.
I love watching people twist and turn as a worm on a hook at the very thought there might exist something beyond what they can see. Maybe that is why they call it faith. Aren’t you glad you live in the USA, where you can express your anti-religious views without the fear of being stoned to death, having your throat slit, hung, and/or beheaded? God bless America.
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Amendment 1
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or
of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition
the Government for a redress of grievances.
Aren’t you glad you live in the USA, where you can express your anti-religious views without the fear of being stoned to death, having your throat slit, hung, and/or beheaded?
That right there tells me you have never bothered to read a damn thing I have ever written and you don’t know me at all even after all these years of you hanging around my blog.