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Skriven 2010-04-16 17:13:20 av Ross Sauer (1:123/789.0)
   Kommentar till text 6643 av WAYNE CHIRNSIDE (1:123/140)
Ärende: About time!
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"WAYNE CHIRNSIDE -> ROSS SAUER" <1:123/140> wrote in
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 -=>> ROSS SAUER wrote to ALL <=-

 RS>> Now watch, the public prayer pimps will come to the rescue of
 WC>   their RS> beloved phony faith.


 RS>> It's not every day that the president of the United States gets
 RS>> enjoined -- prohibited by judicial order from a certain action
 WC>   -- but RS> it happened on April 15, 2010.

 RS>> U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb decided in favor of the
 WC>   Freedom From RS> Religion Foundation in a ruling that the federal
 WC>   law designating a RS> National Day of Prayer and requiring a
 WC>   National Day of Prayer RS> proclamation by the president violates
 WC>   the establishment clause of the RS> Constitution's First Amendment.

 RS>> In her ruling, Judge Crabb wrote: "The same law that prohibits
 WC>   the RS> government from declaring a National Day of Prayer also
 WC>   prohibits it RS> from declaring a National Day of Blasphemy."

 RS>> The Foundation filed its groundbreaking suit in October 2008.
 RS>> Plaintiffs besides the Foundation are Anne Nicol Gaylor, Annie
 WC>   Laurie RS> Gaylor, Dan Barker, Paul Gaylor, Phyllis Rose and Jill
 WC>   Dean, who are RS> all Foundation officers or board members.
 WC>   Defendants are President RS> Barack Obama and Robert Gibbs, his
 WC>   press secretary. Original defendants RS> were President George Bush
 WC>   and Dana Perino, his press secretary at the RS> time.


 WC>   http://ffrf.org/news/releases/ffrf-wins-national-day-of-prayer-case

 WC> I'm still a pastafarian, his noodliness be praised.

Hee hee!

Today on Fox News they had their "bubble-headed bleach blonde" (my
thanks to Don Henley for the song lyrics,) who really showed just how
stupid the Christian prayer pimps can be.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201004160043

Occasionally live television provides a vivid display of the mental
gymnastics and cognitive dissonance deployed to advance an argument.
Take Fox News' Megyn Kelly, who recently asked what was so "promotional
about religion" in setting aside a day to celebrate "the role that God
has played in the formation of this country and its laws."

Discussing a court ruling that declared national prayer day
unconstitutional, Kelly hosted Barry Lynn, executive director of
Americans United for the Separation of Church and State. Lynn set forth
an argument against the appropriateness of the government setting aside
a day to commemorate prayer:

"Prayer is religious. It's nothing but that. There is no secular purpose
here. This isn't like declaring Christmas a holiday, which the federal
government does, because that's got not just religious rituals, but now
glommed onto it all secular rituals. National Day of Prayer is only
about religion. There is nothing secular about it."

At this point, Kelly jumped in to display an astounding failure to grasp
the concept:

"Why can't it be a day where people acknowledge not just prayer, but
they are encouraged to meditate as well, which is not necessarily
prayer? And why can't it be a day where we take a moment and we stop and
we acknowledge the role that God has played in the formation of this
country and its laws. What's so promotional about religion there?"

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