ALERT: A federal district court in Wisconsin ruled the National Day of Prayer unconstitutional on Thursday, April 15th. U.S. District Judge Barbara B. Crabb issued the decision. The judge needs a history lesson, and we need to send a message to Congress: “It’s time that we put a stop to renegade judges who rule with no understanding of our nation’s history. Our founding fathers declared National Days of Prayer to be constitutional, and so should you!”
April 15, 2010
U.S. District Judge
Barbara B. Crabb
A federal district court in Wisconsin today ruled the National Day of Prayer unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Barbara B. Crabb issued the decision in a case filed by the Freedom From Religion Foundation, a Wisconsin-based atheist and agnostic group that challenged the constitutionality of a 1988 federal law.
The law gives the president the authority to designate the first Thursday in May as a National Day of Prayer.
Crabb, appointed to the court in 1979 by President Carter, determined the statute violates the First Amendment's establishment clause, which says, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion." Continue Reading . . .
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