Posted on Wednesday, 18th June 2008 by Patrick Dorwin
Annie Laurie Gaylor and her God hating Freedom From Religion Foundation is calling on Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Mike Huebsch to end the practice of opening each session with a ~gasp~ prayer.
Group asks Assembly to stop opening with prayers, calls them unconsitutional
A group that promotes the separation of church and state has asked Assembly Speaker Mike Huebsch (R-West Salem) to end the state Assembly’s 160-year-old practice of opening sessions with a prayer.In a letter to Huebsch today, Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor of the Madison-based Freedom From Religion Foundation said the prayers often “proselytize and advance the Christian faith” and exclude non-Christian and non-religious legislators, aides and members of the public. The group said that an analysis of videos of 16 prayers led by representatives over a one-year period showed that 15 were explicitly Christian. As a result, the prayers are unconstitutional, the group said.
“Legislators and clergy routinely invoke the Christian diety, ‘Jesus Christ,’ as well as the ‘Holy Spirit’ and Christian prophets and saints,” the letter said. “Many of these ‘prayers’ are nothing less than sermons meant to proselytize and advance the Christian faith to the Wisconsin general public.”
Oh no, all those saints and Holy Spirits and that Christ guy… Oh my, how that scares some (crazy) people…
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June 18th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
Is it just me, or is there something very contradictory in an organization calling itself “Freedom From…” in a land where we treasure our freedom in ALL things, but especially our freedom to practice our religion of choice?
I noted on their web site they state, “…to promote freethought and defend the constitutional principle of the separation of state and church.”
How uneducated and clueless! Because of the commonnly used phrase, “separation of church and state,” so many people incorrectly think the phrase is in the constitution. Someone needs to inform these idiots – oh sorry — these “nontheists” that the phrase “wall of separation between the church and the state” was coined by Thomas Jefferson in a letter to the Danbury Baptists on January 1, 1802. His purpose in this letter was to assuage the fears of the Danbury, Connecticut Baptists, and so he told them that this wall had been erected to protect them. The metaphor was used exclusively to keep the state out of the church’s business, not to keep the church out of the state’s business.
I think you nailed it, Patrick, when you said “how that scares some (crazy) people” – it sure does seem to, doesn’t it. For the life of me I don’t understand that, though. And anyone who’s studied our forefathers to any degree ought to also know they themselves were Christians.
Ranting, sorry. This type blows my mind with this idiocy. The dumbing down…
June 18th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
Well said Jeni!
Amendment 1 – Freedom of Religion, Press, Expression. Ratified 12/15/1791. Note
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
June 19th, 2008 at 1:46 am
She hasn’t been in the news lately and she wants to be relevant, so she throws this out to get attention. She’ll know the papers and media will pick up on it and she can cry out to the heavens that she is relevant, even though she is not. Just like a little kid.
June 19th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Jeni:
You are exactly right.
They have no idea what the First Amendment really means and – quite frankly – they must be pretty shaky in their atheism if they think a little prayer is going to covert the masses.
And – even if it does – isn’t that a free choice people should make? Or is the that a “choice” the FFRF doesn’t want people to make?
June 19th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
That’s it! I’m forming the Freedom from Nuts with time on their hands society.