Why Do We Need a National Day of Prayer?

The National Day of Prayer was created by Congress in 1952 and codified in 1988 after pressure by the religious right. Why does America need a government-mandated day of prayer? Everyone has the right to pray whenever they want.

The "Hidden Atheist" raises very good points in this brief video.

Here is Shirley Dobson talking about the 2008 National Day of Prayer. She believes that as a country, "we have turned away from God and rejected the charge of our Founding Fathers to honor God in both our public and private lives." She says that immorality is being championed and becoming the law of the land and talks about the pursuit of happiness being denied to life in the womb.

Editorial Note – We do not agree with what Mrs. Dobson says; nonetheless, we present it to give a variety of perspectives on this issue.

This classic video was posted by Right Wing Watch, taken from the National Day of Prayer Task Force — "GOD TV," 5/1/2008. The "National Day of Prayer Task Force" is a religious right group pretending to be the "official" agency responsible for the national non-sectarian day of prayer and reflection. Here Janice Rogers Brown, Bush's most extreme judicial nominee, and Vonette Bright, co-founder of Campus Crusade, pray for a right-wing judiciary.

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