Praise be Allah......
Let me make this putt
Posted on 05/03/2010 7:05:17 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
President Obama has issued a proclamation declaring this Thursday as National Day of Prayer.
In his proclamation, he states that prayer has long been an important part of U.S. history. The nation upholds as fundamental principles the exercise of religion and freedom of conscience, he said. Thus Americans have long considered it “fitting and proper” to publicly observe the importance of prayer on May 6.
“On this day, let us give thanks for the many blessings God has bestowed upon our Nation,” said Obama in the proclamation. “Let us rejoice for the blessing of freedom both to believe and to live our beliefs, and for the many other freedoms and opportunities that bring us together as one Nation.”
The National Day of Prayer was officially created in 1952 by a joint resolution of the U.S. Congress, and signed into law by President Harry Truman. Since 1952, every president has signed a National Day of Prayer proclamation.
In April, however, federal judge Barbara Crabb ruled that the National Day of Prayer was unconstitutional because it amounts to a call for religious action. Crabb ruled in favor of Freedom From Religion Foundation, a Wisconsin-based group of atheists and agnostics, that filed the lawsuit in October 2008.
FFRF had originally filed the lawsuit against President George W. Bush and Dana Perino, his press secretary, among others. But the lawsuit has since been changed so that President Obama and Robert Gibbs are among the defendants.
The Obama administration said it intends to appeal Crabb’s decision.
Crabb said her ruling will not bar National Day of Prayer activities until all appeals have been exhausted.
Besides the court ruling, the day of prayer has also been caught in another controversy involving one of its spokespersons.
Evangelist Franklin Graham, co-honorary chair of the National Day of Prayer Task Force, was disinvited from the Pentagon’s National Day of Prayer event over previous comments he made about Islam.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations tried to also get Graham's invitation for the Capitol Hill prayer event rescinded. But congressional sponsors of the event refused to withdraw the invitation for Graham to speak at the prayer gathering at the Capitol.
Graham said he briefly spoke President Obama about being dropped from the Pentagon event when the president recently visited Billy Graham’s home. Obama told him he “would look into it,” Graham said.
For this year’s National Day of Prayer, Obama calls on Americans to particularly remember in their prayers the natural disasters in Haiti and Chile; the families of the West Virginia miners; the people of Poland who have lost many of their country’s leaders; and for those serving in the military.
I pray to see the day He wont be our President.
Ditto. I’ll pray we survive another three years of this anti-American cretin in the white house.
Are we all required a prayer rug now?
No, but you’ll have to face New Mombasa on the Potomac.
I want my prayer rug in red, white and blue straight lines, no curves, just straight lines and in cotton chinelle
Franklin Graham is not welcome. I do not pray that day.
What a bunch of BULL SHITE!
He’s doing his political Shite as usual...getting his big ass nose up someone’s are and making it all brown.
Full of Shite and a POS, that is what he is.
Prayer, my ass. Yeah, to Allah only.
Prayer to who?
Marx, Mao, Stalin, or Satan?
I got some of them and if you’re female i have a nice selection of prayer chadors (those are diff from everyday and street chadors and eveningwear chadors) i’ll throw in a free koran and some lucky prayer beads and prayer stones real cheep/s
RE: Prayer to who?
Marx, Mao, Stalin, or Satan?
Would you believe that Obama actually said this :
“Here are the simple facts,” Obama said. “I am a Christian. I am a devout Christian. I have been a member of the same church for 20 years. I pray to Jesus every night.”
SEE HERE :
http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2008/03/02/ddn030308obama.html
“President Obama Proclaims National Day of Five Prayers Facing Mecca"
Does that include bowing to the east several times?
Listen! All the more you should pray! We are living in perilous times. It is time to humble ourselves, seek God's face, change our wicked ways so God will hear from heaven, forgive us, and heal our land!
Our Father, who art in heaven
Hallowed by Thy Name
Thy kingdom come
Thy will be done
on Earth as it is in Heaven
Give us this day our daily bread
And forgive us our trespasses
As we forgive those who trespass against us
And lead us not into temptation
But deliver us from evil.
Cheers!
So, Obozo. Am I suppose to face Mecca and kneel when I pray on Thursday?????
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