National Day of Prayer Canceled at the White House

[guido911]

Crowder's take (a good one):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h02jtMIauIA

Clinging to guns and religion, never a good thing when you are bitter.

[RecycleMichael]

My wife found this except...it was from the Daily Kos...

The White House notes that presidents previous to Bush, including Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, were not in the habit of holding White House events for the National Day of Prayer ... Today, however, the task force E-mailed me to say it had uncovered evidence for two White House events in pre-Bush administrations: a 1989 breakfast event in the State Dining Room hosted by George H. W. Bush and a 1982 Rose Garden event with Reagan.

And a quick Nexis search allowed me to uncover evidence of a United Press International story, dated May 6, 1982, by David E. Anderson, saying that Ronald Reagan's big event was a Rose Garden announcement that he was proposing a constitutional amendment to restore school prayer:

Leaders of major Baptist, Jewish and Protestant religious groups as well as spokesmen for civil liberties groups sharply criticized the plan and said they will fight it every step of the way -- a fight they have successfully waged since the 1962 and 1963 Supreme Court decisions banning school prayer.

''The religious training of children is the responsibility of the family and the church; it is not the responsibility of government at any level,'' said Dr. Claire Randall, general secretary of the National Council of Churches.  [...]

John Baker, general counsel of the Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs -- a group of nine Baptist churches including the 132-million-member Southern Baptist Convention -- said that ''from a religious perspective, I am appalled at the prospect of politicizing prayer -- the most personal communication of an individual with his or her deity.''

''Involving government in prayer would trivialize and secularize prayer,'' he said.

So, how did George H.W. Bush's one and only event go? According to an Associated Press story, dated May, 4, 1989, by Tom Raum:

President Bush observed National Day of Prayer with a breakfast with religious leaders at the White House today, and promptly noticed no one had offered to begin the meal with a prayer.

Oh, and G.H.W. Bush told an attendee that she should pray about short-range missiles. And for Congress.

[Crash Daily]

The "barriers" between Church and State were never design to be used as instruments to suppress religion or state. National days of prayer and In God We trust would never have been considered n violation of the original intent. the destructive version, which was design as an attack on Christianity came many years after the founding of this nation. That being said, I could have told you Obama was going to try and ban God. He doesn't like the competition.-
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The "barriers" between Church and State were never design to be used as instruments to suppress religion or state. National days of prayer and In God We trust would never have been considered n violation of the original intent. the destructive version, which was design as an attack on Christianity came many years after the founding of this nation. That being said, I could have told you Obama was going to try and ban God. He doesn't like the competition.-
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Congrats Crash! You've just put yourself out there for everyone to see what a sociopath you must be.

Just remember, a Friend Of The Devil is a friend of mine.

The country is changing faster than you pimples can bust.