Friday, April 16, 2010

National Day of Prayer Unconstitutional?

In the news is the ruling by U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb of the United States District Court of the state of Wisconsin, that the National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional and violates the first amendment.

First of all,I'm wondering where in the Constitution a state district court has the power to overturn Congress or to engage in Federal Judicial review. This case should be before the Supreme Court of the United States. My guess is that it will eventually get there as the appeal process continues.

Secondly, she could not have done any research into the intentions of the founders when they ratified the First Amendment. It's well known that on the day the First Amendment was ratified;

"...the House of Representatives authorized the first official Thanksgiving. The resolution they passed called for “a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God.”
...Clearly those in the first Congress did not see any conflict between the First Amendment’s prohibition on an established religion, and government sanctioning an official day of thanksgiving to God."
(http://www.pbs.org/georgewashington/classroom/religious_liberty3.html)
My opinion is that this Judge substituted her own beliefs and ideology, and cherry-picked case law to support those beliefs, when recorded history and the Congressional Record clearly indicates the intentions of the founding fathers and the first congress.

Religion, and Christianity in specific is under attack in this nation. This nation was founded on the basis of freedom of religion, not freedom from religion. That freedom is one of the bedrocks of this nation. Many Americans gave their lives in the history of this nation. It is spitting on their graves to allow an unaccountable, unelected judge to decide to overturn 230 years of precedent, and one of the bedrock freedoms of our great nation.

This has to stop. This is the danger of a radical activist minority who hates what made this nation great, trying to recreate the nation in their own image.

I hope all my freedom loving friends of all political stripes, who value their freedoms will stand up and say "NO!".

Over 60 million people were murdered in countries where there was no religious freedom on which to base the morals of a nation. That is not an advertisement for making our country a secular nation.

Our religious faith is what makes this country great!

"All of us who were engaged in the struggle must have observed frequent instances of superintending providence in our favor. To that kind providence we owe this happy opportunity of consulting in peace on the means of establishing our future national felicity. And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? Or do we imagine that we no longer need his assistance? I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth-that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the Ground without his Notice, is it probable that an Empire can rise without his Aid?" -- Benjamin Franklin, To Colleagues at the Constitutional Convention.
"If we forget that we are a nation under God, we will be a nation gone under." -- Ronald Wilson Reagan 

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