NO MORE NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER?

Check this out from "American Vision" and "Vision to America":

SIGN OUR NATIONAL PETITION TO PROTECT PRAYER TODAY!

A federal district court in Wisconsin ruled the National Day of Prayer unconstitutional on Thursday, April 15th. U.S. District Judge Barbara B. Crabb issued the decision. The judge needs a history lesson, and we need to send a message to Congress: “It’s time that we put a stop to renegade judges who rule with no understanding of our nation’s history. Our founding fathers declared National Days of Prayer to be constitutional, and so should you!”

CONSIDER THESE FACTS:

• Congress set aside December 18, 1777 as a day of thanksgiving so the American people “may express the grateful feelings of their hearts and consecrate themselves to the service of their divine benefactor” and on which they might “join the penitent confession of their manifold sins . . . that it may please God, through the merits of Jesus Christ, mercifully to forgive and blot them out of remembrance.” Congress also recommended that Americans petition God “to prosper the means of religion for the promotion and enlargement of that kingdom which consists in righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.”

• In 1789, the same day Congress finished drafting the First Amendment it requested President Washington to declare a National day of prayer and thanksgiving. The proclamation declared that “it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor.”

• In 1795, Samuel Adams, who signed the Declaration of Independence, ratified the Constitution, and served as governor of Massachusetts, issued A Proclamation For a Day of Public Fasting, Humiliation and Prayer.

• By 1815, more than 2,000 official governmental calls to prayer had been issued at both the State and Federal levels, with thousands more issued since 1815.
• In 1863, Abraham Lincoln appointed a National Day of Prayer: “Whereas, the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God, in all the affairs of men and of nations, has, by a resolution, requested the President to designate and set apart a day for National prayer and humiliation. And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.”

PROTECT THE TIME-HONORED & CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER:

Go to this link to sign the petition:

http://www.protectprayer.org/