A federal judge in Wisconsin ruled the National Day of Prayer unconstitutional Thursday, saying the day amounts to a call for religious action. U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb wrote that the government can no more enact laws supporting a day of prayer than it can encourage citizens to fast during Ramadan, attend a synagogue or practice magic.
Congress established the day in 1952 and in 1988 set the first Thursday in May as the day for presidents to issue proclamations asking Americans to pray. The Freedom from Religion Organization, a Madison-based group of atheists and agnostics, filed a lawsuit against the federal government in 2008 arguing the day violated the separation of church and state.
The National Day of Prayer has never dictated who or what to pray to, it only acknowledges a time for those who choose to do so.
Slowly, everything that our Nation has stood for is being eroaded away from us, and we are letting it happen. As a Christian, we have a right, and a priveledge to stand for Biblical principles. If we don't, who will.
As we are in Israel this week, please to remember to 'pray for the peace of Jerusalem.' If ever Israel needed an ace-in-the-hole, it needs it now. With the Obama Administration's new Muslim favoring policy and the continued hostile attitude of the European Union toward the State of Israel, Israel has been left hanging in perilous winds without a friend. Today, the whole world is at best negative toward Israel, and at worst outright hostile toward its continued existence as a state. Many who teach prophecy believe the odds of Israel continuing as a state for more than ten more years are next to zero.
Truly, we are living in uncertain and difficult time, all around the world, not just in the US.
This would be a "good day to fly."
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