Is National Prayer Day Constitutional?

This video is a response to U.S. District Court Judge Barbara Crabb and others think that "National Prayer Day" is unconstitutional and violates the first amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

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[baigandine]

How could a case be any clearer? That's an establishment of religion for sure. The Constitution wouldn't really "say" very much if rather than it's language we looked only to it's "history."

[bRizzle2009100]

@baigandine If having a National Day of Prayer is an establishment of religion, then that means Christianity has been the official religion of the U.S. since the Constitution's inception. Starting in 1789, the U.S. started releasing prayer proclamations with very evangelical Christian language in it like mentioning Bible verses, hymns, God, the Holy Spirit, and even Jesus. According to the framers of the Constitution, releasing a prayer proclamation wasnt an establishment of religion.

[baigandine]

@bRizzle2009100 You also shouldn't assume everything the founders after they wrote the Cosntitution did was immaculately Constitutional just because they wrote the thing. They didn't retain a right to somehow alter the Constitution with their behavior. The document ruled, not the men. And no one person wrote it. It was a result of political compromise. So yes clauses absolutely got into the Constitution that not all the founders believed in.

[bRizzle2009100]

@baigandine It's not just that. Even when the framers were debating the First Amendment in Congress, not one of the framers used to phrase "separation of church & state" or even hinted that public religious expression was prohibited. The founders wouldnt go thru all that trouble to establish a republican form of government just to do the same thing the British did to them to the rest of the country. And when u study ppl like Washington, u know he wouldnt do something like that.

[miket1m]

@FlyinSpaghettiMnstr7 See what I mean, this ignorant comment you just made shows just how much you think you know and how little you actually do know. Do you generally comment on everything you have little knowledge of, moron?

[FlyinSpaghettiMnstr7]

@miket1m nope, keep your religion to yourself. slavery and killing your kids if they talk back will never happen again.

[miket1m]

@FlyinSpaghettiMnstr7 Thomas Jefferson...said, "The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart." Ben Franklin, Samuel Adams, George Washington, James Madison, all Christians. The founders of Harvard College, established in 1636, professed that, "All knowledge without Christ was vain." You couldn't even attend Harvard unless you were well versed in the Bible.

[miket1m]

@FlyinSpaghettiMnstr7 Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, "We enter into a combination and confederation together to maintain and preserve the liberty and purity of the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, which we now profess."

Declaration of Independence "We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness........"

[miket1m]

@FlyinSpaghettiMnstr7 And, not only did Christians found this country, but that if you analyze world history using the evidence available, you will see that God established the United States for specific reasons. In 1620, the Pilgrims established the Mayflower Compact before they landed at Plymouth Rock. The document said,n the presence of God, Amen. We...do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God, and one another, covenant and combine ourselves into a civil body politic.

[miket1m]

@FlyinSpaghettiMnstr7 History moron, recorded history

[FlyinSpaghettiMnstr7]

@miket1m we do "fuck wit them, -how do we treat you any differnt then them? also, wtf are you talking about with the " This country was founded on Christianity and don't even think of telling me its not" crap? where did you get this from?

[miket1m]

@FlyinSpaghettiMnstr7 Thats bullshit. This country was founded on Christianity and don't even think of telling me its not.; I have a ton of proof I really don't feel like sending you. Government does not endorse religion, but its job is to protect it. As far as the scumbag muslims are concerned, they block Madison Ave for their prayers. How come you stupid fucks are not fucking with them,? I'll tell ya why, because your pussies, thats why!

[FlyinSpaghettiMnstr7]

@miket1m yes from religious persecution from christians, also it means that government can not endorse religion, how would you like it if muslims got their prayer in?