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Wendy Kaminer: National Prayer Day

By Alliance Alert

Wendy Kaminer writing in The Atlantic: "Judge Crabb cited numerous complaints from members of minority faiths about the 'hi-jacking' of Prayer Day by conservative Christians. Joel Oster, Senior Legal Counsel of the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF), disputes the prevalence of these complaints, suggesting that they are isolated incidents instigated by "special interest groups that create their own devisiveness' . . . What's the harm of National Prayer Day? It equates prayerfulness and patriotism, as its congressional history makes clear; it sends a 'message of exclusion' to religious minorities and other heretics, and, again, it threatens sectarian divisiveness."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on April 30, 2010 (boomark / email).