Vector Of A Lie

Obama is not a Muslim.  He was not born in Kenya.  He did not cancel the National Day of Prayer.  Here's the reality, despite the chain e-mail that's been going around:

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 practice magic.

"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's decision whether and when to pray," Crabb wrote.

Congress established the day in 1952 and in 1988 set the first Thursday in May as the day for presidents to issue proclamations asking Americans to pray. The Freedom From Religion Foundation, a Madison-based group of atheists and agnostics, filed a lawsuit against the federal government in 2008 arguing the day violated the separation of church and state.

President Barack Obama's administration has countered that the statute simply acknowledges the role of religion in the United States. Obama issued a proclamation last year but did not hold public events with religious leaders as former President George W. Bush had done.

Crabb wrote that her ruling shouldn't be considered a bar to any prayer days until all appeals are exhausted. U.S. Justice Department attorneys who represented the federal government in the case were reviewing the ruling Thursday afternoon, agency spokesman Charles Miller said. He declined further comment.

Obama spokesman Matt Lehrich said in an e-mail to The Associated Press the president still plans to issue a proclamation for the next prayer day.

"As he did last year, President Obama intends to recognize a National Day of Prayer," Lehrich said.

Here's my question:  If you think President Obama is dragging us kicking and screaming towards "socialism" and you decry his "unprecedented government interference" in the lives of ordinary Americans, shouldn't you be against the government telling you which day is okay to pray to whatever God/Goddess/Deity/Pantheon/Whatever you want to?

Isn't that interference?  It's been that way for almost 60 years now.  It's worth a revolution (some would argue an armed and violent one) against the government because the government wants people to buy health insurance, but a government-designated National Day of Prayer is perfectly fine?

I don't understand wingers sometimes.  They just don't make sense.