An Ol' Broad's Ramblings
One Nation UNDER GOD!
Day of Prayer ruled unconstitutional
Annie Laurie Gaylor loves America, but she’s no fan of God.
She must be a very unhappy person. I guess her purpose in life is to make others unhappy. And if she truly loves America, why is she doing her utmost to change it into something it was never intended?
She was thrilled Thursday when a federal judge ruled that the National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional.
“We are ecstatic,” said Gaylor, co-president of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, which advocates for nonbelievers. Gaylor’s group sued to overturn a federal law that requires the president to declare an annual day of prayer each year. United States District Court Judge Barbara Crabb of the Western District of Wisconsin ruled in their favor.
What is it about Wisconsin, that a small minority can slap the larger number of people in the face, on a daily basis, and they think it’s good? If the state could kick out Madison and Milwaukee, it might just be a decent place to live. Obviously, we didn’t think so. We left!
Gaylor said the National Day of Prayer creates hostility toward atheists. She believes the law questions her patriotism.
I happen to disagree! BIG time! No one is hostile towards atheists. Actually, most Christians I know feel rather bad for them, because they don’t know the joy of knowing they are loved, no matter what!
“Our government is saying that we are not good Americans because we don’t pray,” she said.
The government isn’t saying any such thing! I might though. Obviously, this woman never learned the foundations of this country, and would rather see us become some place like Soviet Russia, where worshiping God was a crime.
In her ruling, Crabb noted that Americans always have disagreed about the role of prayer in public life. The judge noted that some delegates to the Continental Congress in 1774 wanted to open their sessions in prayer, but they were eventually overruled.
Really? Is that what the judge learned in school? Not one of the signers of the Constitutional, as far as I know, was an atheist. The Founders were quite vocal about their faith, but yet, one small group is telling us WE can’t pray for our nation, and it’s leaders? Lord know, THEY surely do need prayer!
The judge also acknowledged that prayer is important to many Americans, but she ruled that the government can’t endorse a day of prayer.
“In fact, it is because the nature of prayer is so personal and can have such a powerful effect on a community that the government may not use its authority to try to influence an individual’s decision whether and when to pray,” she ruled.
I hate to break to the judge, and the Freedom From Religion bunch, but the National Day of Prayer is not forcing anyone to pray. It was a day, set aside, for WE, as a Nation, to come together, UNDER GOD! If they don’t want to, that’s their business, but since people like this have been forcing the faithful underground, so to speak, this nation has taken a SERIOUS nose dive. No where, in the U.S. Constitution does the phrase “separation of church and state” appear.
If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under.
~ Ronald Reagan ~
Amen. Love the Reagan quote, too, though it’s sad to see it coming to fruition.
As a side not, I read my wife the comic at the top, and after reading the part about activating “monkey poo power” I told her to keep in mind that the reporter was a monkey. To that she replied, “Well, aren’t most of them?”
ROFLMAO Your wife is definitely right!!