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newsweek.washingtonpost.com - 5/7/2009
No Day of Prayer Event for Obama
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Good work President Obama! The fact that George Bush performed an act that he called prayer doesn't mean that what he was doing in that act had anything to with truth or God or anything sacred. His actions spoke much louder than his piddling attempt at sanctity. He is responsible for untold ...
washingtontimes.com - 5/6/2009
Obama to be prayer day no-show
— washingtontimes.com — President to sign proclamation, observe privately By Julia Duin ( Contact ) | Wednesday, May 6, 2009... President Obama is distancing himself from the National Day of Prayer by nixing a formal early morning service and not attending a large Catholic ... (more) Obama to be prayer day no-show

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stoptheaclu.com - 5/7/2009
Obama On National Prayer Day: No Thanks
— stoptheaclu.com — Apparently, President Neophyte, who has stated that he believes in the “power of prayer” and “felt a... beckoning of the spirit and accepted Jesus Christ into his life,” is actually closer to a belief that people of religion are ... (more) Obama On National Prayer Day: No Thanks

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National Day of Prayer
Political Animal — ... pray is rather odd. In the early 1950s, when lawmakers were adding "under God" to the Pledge and changing all American money to include the phrase "In God We Trust," Congress created an official annual Prayer Day for the nation. Congress, under pressure from the religious right, changed the law in 1988 to set the National Day of Prayer as the first Thursday in May, which brings us to today. The good news is, President Obama is choosing to honor the official National Day of Prayer in a very different way than his predecessor. The National Day of Prayer White House event is ...

No prayer day ceremony at new White House
The Reaction — ... Now, if only we could get god out of every other aspect of our public lives maybe this country could progress as our founders intended. ...

Obama Fails to Celebrate the Theocracy
Tennessee Guerilla Women — ... Add this to that very long list of reasons you are so glad that Bush is gone. Poor Pat Buchanan is ranting on MSNBC because Obama won't be continuing the hallowed Bush tradition of celebrating the theocracy via the Holy National Prayer Day: ...

Silent Prayer
Shakesville — President Obama observed the National Day of Prayer today in much the same way as most of his predecessors did: he signed a proclamation. (I didn't even know that the NDP was today, but then, as a Quaker, every day is a day of prayer.) That, of course, was not good enough for the Pharisees. Conservative Christian leaders who popularized the event are regarding it at a snub, calling it a "boycott." ... During the Bush administration, the first Thursday in May -- the National Day of Prayer, as mandated by Congress -- included a ceremony in the White House East ...

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