The misleadingly-named organization known as the "Presidential Prayer Team" is soliciting comments from the public to this effect:
"Today, we'd like to start by asking you to tell us what you believe the issues and concerns are that you believe has the United States in critical condition as a Christian nation. We want to know what your concerns are, why they are important, and what is the biblical reference or response to your concern. We will then publish the top concerns as the major Vital Signs that we need to pray for and take a stand about in the days to come.
["what you believe the issues and concerns are that you believe..."--Yikes! Who wrote that awkward gibberish?]
Tell us what has the U.S. in critical condition as a Christian nation!
Send us your America's Vital Signs by email to VitalSigns@PresidentialPrayerTeam.org"
I, beternU, have sent in comments and they are provided immediately below for your information and edification. Others who might wish to advise this organization of the misguided nature of their ways should consider sending them your own comments. Those who continue to assert the Christian Nationist philosophy of Constitutional interpretation might wish to send them your own misguided encouragement.
Here is an equal opportunity for one and all to send views to the Presidential Prayer Team, which has no official connection with the office of the President of the United States and Commander-in-Chief of its Armed Forces, the Honorable Barack Hussein Obama. As additional information, here is snopes.com's entry on the topic of Presidential Prayer Team.
http://www.snopes.com/rumors/prayer.asp
And now, as promised, my very own contribution to the defense of our Constitution against the onslought of the muddled and misinformed Christian Nationists. Ta - Da!!
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"1. Ways for you to speak out against what you see happening in the courts and in the nation's capitol."
The courts, it is widely argued by conservative and misguided interests, have interfered with the "rights of Christians to pray" in such places as the public school classrooms and at school-sponsored and school-directed activities. The public schools, as you should know, are an entity of GOVERNMENT. Officials of government have no business telling any child when to pray, where to pray, who to pray to, what to pray for--or whether to pray or not pray! The courts of this land have properly ruled that school prayers directed and controlled by school authorities violate the establishment clause of the First Amendment. The courts have in no way compromised the right of any student in any public school to pray directly and privately to his/her God, gods, tree stump or any other chosen object of devotion.
Right-wing zealots who object to the rulings of the U.S. Supreme Court concerning school prayer are an embarrassment to informed and intelligent Christians who respect the Constitution. Jesus Christ did not come to this world to establish a worldly kingdom (John 18:36). He did not die upon the cross to purchase the United States of America, but rather to purchase His "church, which is His body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all" (Ephesians 1: 22 & 23).
By securing this nation against the encroachment of the state into the affairs of religion, the Constitution's separation of church and state (yeah, yeah, I know that wording is not in the Constitution, but the principle most decidedly is!), has enabled freedom of religion to flourish in this nation as no other. Those who would seek to restore to public school authorities the prerogative to control the prayers of your child or mine are enemies of this freedom and ought to repent of that folly.
This is probably not the kind of response you covet, but it is what you need!>>>>
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