The long national nightmare is over. The jackbooted thug theocracy instituted by George W. Bush called the National Day of Prayer is finally past. Over the past few years, who hasn’t received the ominous knock on the door and heard the booming voice of the government funded Ministeria demanding, “Citizen, it’s 10 a.m. have you prayed today?” Who hasn’t seen agnostics being stoned on the National Day of Prayer?
Oh wait. None of that happened? So why would this be struck down by a judge?
CNN reports:
A federal judge on Thursday struck down the federal statute that established the National Day of Prayer, ruling that it violates the constitutional ban on government-backed religion.
“[I]ts sole purpose is to encourage all citizens to engage in prayer, an inherently religious exercise that serves no secular function,” a Wisconsin judge wrote in the ruling, referring to the 1952 law that created the National Day of Prayer.
“In this instance, the government has taken sides on a matter that must be left to individual conscience,” wrote the judge, Barbara B. Crabb.
Crabb, surprise surprise, was a Carter appointee. This is why elections matter because Presidents nominate judges who then rule over the planet like black robed overlords, enforcing their ill considered whims on an unsuspecting populace.
What’s next? References to God stricken from our Founding documents. The President no longer be able to attend religious functions (not like that would effect Obama’s schedule at all.) All religious holidays taken off the federal holiday list except Rhamadan, of course.
The Supreme Court will surely have to overturn this nutty judge but in the future unless conservatives start winning elections, the Supreme Court will agree with nutty judges like this and this will be the law of the land.
April 16, 2010 at 3:00 pm
What a crab that judge must be… 🙂
April 16, 2010 at 3:14 pm
"[I]ts sole purpose is to encourage all citizens to engage in prayer, an inherently religious exercise that serves no secular function,"
Isn't this decision an example of the government prescribing that prayer in the country serves no secular function. That's got to be unconstitutional, right?
April 16, 2010 at 3:35 pm
Yeah, this Judge clearly knows better than George Washington and the First Congress, who declared a national day of prayer and Thanksgiving in 1789. I mean what would they know about the First Amendment?
April 16, 2010 at 4:00 pm
One wonders why these people feel so threatened…
April 16, 2010 at 4:41 pm
Next thing you know, they well declare Mother's Day unconstitutional cause some kids have 2 daddies.
April 16, 2010 at 5:42 pm
Thanksgiving Day is next
April 16, 2010 at 5:54 pm
Now John F, the President wants us to say Thankyou..just not to God.
April 16, 2010 at 6:36 pm
What a big not surprise. The patients are running the asylum so of course the patients who have been mumbling to themselves in the dark corners feel okay about scurrying out into the light…. Isn't there like a Proverb about that or something?
April 16, 2010 at 7:07 pm
I love that her name is really Judge Crabb. That's right out of a movie script.