{"id":7767,"date":"2010-04-15T23:29:41","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T23:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/04\/15\/national-day-of-prayer-is-unco\/"},"modified":"2010-04-15T23:29:41","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T23:29:41","slug":"national-day-of-prayer-is-unco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/15\/national-day-of-prayer-is-unco\/","title":{"rendered":"National Day of Prayer is Unconstitutional"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p> A federal judge in Wisconsin ruled the National Day of Prayer unconstitutional Thursday, saying the day amounts to a call for religious action.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb wrote that the government can no more enact laws supporting a day of prayer than it can encourage citizens to fast during Ramadan, attend a synagogue or practice magic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In fact, it is because the nature of prayer is so personal and can have such a powerful effect on a community that the government may not use its authority to try to influence an individual&#8217;s decision whether and when to pray,&#8221; Crabb wrote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5gd8532foDasi_HtAzi9JolkMVlqQD9F3PCE00\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge in Wisconsin ruled the National Day of Prayer unconstitutional Thursday, saying the day amounts to a call for religious action. U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb wrote that the government can no more enact laws supporting a day of prayer than it can encourage citizens to fast during Ramadan, attend a synagogue or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/15\/national-day-of-prayer-is-unco\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">National Day of Prayer is Unconstitutional<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-21h","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7767"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}