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Michael McGough, it doesn't bother you that the NDOP's website "Mobilizes Christian community members to intercede for America and its leadership in government, military, media, business, education, church and family" and is overtly backing one establishment of religion, mentioning taking back the nation for Jesus? That other faiths, including other forms of Christianity (Mormonism) have been discriminated against? That National Prayer Breakfasts and weekly prayer meeting are used by the Family to build support for a Christian Dominionist takeover of the U.S. government? Are you blind?
What other "trivialities" shouldn't the federal government concern itself with: the Jewish high school student forced to pray in class, the family harassed because they are Muslim, the practitioners of Buddhism and Taoism who don't believe in a God at all? The Native Americans forced to surrender their language and culture and ripped from their families to be educated in Catholic orphanages? The atheist told that s/he is "not really a citizen" because of no God-belief, or the atheists whose murder the police refused the investigate (the O'Hairs) because they, being "just atheists," obviously took off with the money?
I cannot understand why you do not find it troubling that a federal law would mandate that the President declare a National Day of Prayer. This is a ruling for common sense.
Praying for common sense
It would be understandable if supporters of the separation of church and state suspected that there's a fifth column in the judiciary determined to make the separationist cause look bad. Latest example: A federal district judge's ruling that the National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional. Like ...
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