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Members of the Prayer Caucus Call on Colorado Governor to Defend Day of Prayer
Posted by The Congressional Prayer Caucus | May 21, 2012

A three-judge panel of the Colorado Court of Appeals recently ruled that the annual Colorado Day of Prayer proclamations from 2004 to 2009 violated the state constitution.  Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO), a Member of the Prayer Caucus, immediately sent a letter calling on Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper to appeal the decision to the Colorado Supreme Court.  According to Rep. Lamborn, “The decision of the Colorado Court of Appeals declaring your proclamation unconstitutional is stunning in light of the overwhelming importance of prayer to Coloradans and all Americans, the extent to which prayer is deeply engrained in the history of our nation, and the text of the Constitution itself.” 

Fourteen Members of Congress then sent a letter echoing Rep. Lamborn’s call that the ruling be appealed.  The Members explained that the Denver District Court previously had ruled correctly by dismissing the lawsuit.  In its ruling, the district court said, “. . . there is nothing controversial about a restatement of a right protected by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.”

Similar lawsuits have been brought in the past challenging National Day of Prayer proclamations.  In April of 2010, a federal district court in Wisconsin held that the statute establishing the National Day of Prayer was unconstitutional.  The following week, nearly thirty Members of Congress and leaders of faith held a bipartisan press conference, defending the constitutionality of the National Day of Prayer and calling on the White House to appeal the district court’s ruling.  The next day, the Obama Administration announced that it would appeal the case to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.  Members of the Prayer Caucus then signed onto an amicus curiae brief affirming the constitutionality of the National Day of Prayer; and the Seventh Circuit ultimately dismissed the case.

Throughout our nation’s history, prayer has been deeply woven into the foundation of our great democracy.  Members of the Prayer Caucus will continue working to ensure that this legacy is preserved for future generations.

 

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  • Nate O commented on 5/22/2012
    Amen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • Carlin Rafie commented on 5/22/2012
    Please continue to defend the right of the majority to express their faith in a Creator in the public square. I encourage you to look for ways to firmly establish the right of religious expression in government venues. To quote Ronald Reagan, "The day we stop being One Nation Under God, is the day we will be a nation gone under."
  • Barbie Fagen commented on 5/22/2012
    Prayer remains our one great hope for this nation which was preciously founded on prayer!!! Thanks for fighting the good fight! Praying for you defenders of faith and liberty!
  • Dylan Henry commented on 5/22/2012
    It takes a Godless, proud, self-righteous kind of people come up with something as wicked, useless and stupid as this. Prayer is part of who we are as human beings, whether anyone believes that or not. To choose to assemble together as a group and pray is a God-given freedom that can't be touched, according the 1st Amendment. We've come to the time in the history of man, where many in power today are trying to silence to mouths that have been speaking. Those mouths have been declaring the glorious truths of the Gospel, BUT MUST NOT, WE WILL NOT BE SILENT!!!
  • Barbie Fagen commented on 5/22/2012
    Prayer remains our one great hope for this nation which was preciously founded on prayer!!! Thanks for fighting the good fight! Praying for you defenders of faith and liberty!
  • Marieda Craghead commented on 5/22/2012
    Thank you, Congressman Forbes for your unrelenting work upholding our Constitution. Sometimes, it may seem as if it's just a "finger in the dike" but one day we may know just how much devastation was prevented. Never give up!!
  • Nancy Taylor commented on 5/22/2012
    Our country was founded on Christian principles and I approve of the National Day of Prayer and prayer in general as it is my right as a Christian to pray wherever and whenever I choose.
  • Jena Rice commented on 5/22/2012
    I completely agree that The Day Of Prayer should be preserved. It is our right of freedom speech and expression. There are too many attacks on Christianity in our nation and if we don't keep fighting, those who oppose will win. If someone does not like prayer they are not forced to pray...therefore if someone wishes to have a day set aside they are entitled to that freedom.
  • Bonnie Norem commented on 5/22/2012
    I deeply support the opportunity to have Colorado Day of Prayer. We are still founded on Christian/Jewish values and we are in need of humbling coming to our Lord thanking Him for all our years of protection and fruitfulness in our great land. He is our shield and protection. This is a time in our nation where we need to break down the defiance and selfish attitude in our lives and turn to God. When we chase the Lord out of our nation, we will continue to be a people of rioting and destruction. We are a people that has reached out in love giving to other nations from the beginning. God's love is what needs to continue to shine! I just think that our nation/states allow rioting and destruction but don't want prayer. Something is really wrong with this picture. Are we a lost nation?
  • Howard Donigian commented on 5/22/2012
    I believe in the right to be able to pray, it has been part of our heritage. My family brought me up with prayer as a way of life. my parents came here because of their belief in the right to pray. They came from Turkey during the persecution. My father volunteered during WW1 and he prayed a lot So did I during WW2, and my younger brother during the Korean war. No human should be allowed to take this away from any one. We need it now more than ever before. Thank you for all you are doing to preserve this RIGHT.
  • Bradley Shedd commented on 5/22/2012
    Thanks so much for your faithful support and work in defending our First Amendment rights! I will continue to pray for Randy Forbes and everyone involved!
  • BJ Culver commented on 5/22/2012
    Dear Prayer Caucus members, Thank you for the mighty work you are doing I prayer. I am reminded of what happened in Nazi Germany when a nation forgot God. It pains me to see that very thing occurring in our country! Please press on...I believe it was President John Adams who said, "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." I ask the Lord to bless you as you gather...& to shed His grace & mercy on our beloved America." Yours in Christ, BJ Culver
  • Angus McDonald commented on 5/22/2012
    Thank God that you took a stand. I do not understand such challenges. Who does such prayer hurt? I prayed alongside of Dr. Dobson and his wife Shirley, in Lafayette Park in DC across from the White House. Regardless of the fact that the Dobsons had opposed numerous moves of that administration, they were still there. Presidents need prayer regardless of what side of the aisle they are on. I am so thankful for your Prayer Caucus!!!
  • Jim Last Name commented on 5/22/2012
    God owns everything we are on this Earth that God built to even have to deal with something like is a concern. Thanks you for fighting for our freedoms. I hope the Law, the constitution and more lawmakers will continue to work for us in this regard.
  • Dennis Sugumele commented on 5/22/2012
    I commend everyone for contiuning to defend our right to hold a "Day of Prayer" in this country. Thank you for all your efforts.
  • Donna DeBadts commented on 5/22/2012
    They came by small ships, they fought the elements, they did WHATEVER they could do, in order to have Freedom of Religion rights! Let us as a Nation, not make all their efforts be in vain. God bless and keep America always strong, united the land of the FREE!
  • Carol Carol Hermsen commented on 5/22/2012
    I just got back from bible study. The attacks on our Christian way of life are against the First Amendment. Please keep up the fight to defend Colorados Day of Prayer. All Christians is this country need to defend our values. We have always been a God fearing nation. No ideology should be aloud to distate what we believe in our great country of America. We a belivers of Jesus Christ. Carol Hermsen
  • Norman Robinson commented on 5/22/2012
    Thank you for your efforts in support of a national day of prayer and of prayer in general.
  • Harold Richards commented on 5/22/2012
    No one is being forced to pray. Why should those who are not being made to pray want everyone to be forbidend to pray? Doesn't that make those who want to pray the wronged citizens? Looks like the judges should think of that!
  • Cliff Asmussen commented on 5/22/2012
    It's so very frustrating to see what our government is trying to do with anything related to Christians and a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Our nation was founded on such principals and will surely fall if we let these principals slip away. Please keep up the fight to allow a national day of prayer and the right to pray when and where we want. That they can not stop!
  • Ann Pierce commented on 5/22/2012
    Thank you for your efforts. I am for defending the right of Colorado or any other state or community to have a Day of Prayer.
  • Kevin McMahan commented on 5/22/2012
    Thank you for your efforts, Congressman Forbes! And thank you for the Congressional Prayer Caucus. Praying for you, the CPC, the Colo Governor, and the three judge appeal panel in Colo.
  • Robert Sandberg commented on 5/22/2012
    The freedom to pray for our country and issues concerning our Country has always been a cherished freedom and responsibility. Anyone who questions this need go to Benjamin Franklin in his speech to the Constitutional Convention (on Prayer) on 28 June, 1787 in Philadelphia, Pa. It starts:"I' ve lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this Truth----that Governs in the affairs of men......... I therefore beg leave to move--- that henceforth prayers imploring ......." I hope that the sins of today, i.e., abortion, so called gay agenda, fiscal irresponsibility, etc. have not succeeded in God turning His back on us the way we have turned become lukewarm; the church of Laodieca Rev. 3: 14-22).
  • Kenneth Shively commented on 5/22/2012
    Congressman Forbes, Thank you for your hard work for America. I read most of your emails to me. I agree with keeping the right of all Americans to pray. The National Day of Prayer is another way of doing just that. We should encourage each other to pray daily in our own way and in our own faith for God to heal our nation. We should impeach President Obama. He is destroying our way of life, including our individual rights to worship in our own way. He certainly is not a good example to Americans!!!!
  • Linda Templet commented on 5/22/2012
    Capitol Letters were put in all of our official documents because our forefathers wanted to put emphasis or highly stress upon the importance of certain words. Are we paying any attention to the capitol letters in these documents? We, The people, created, formed, and made the sort or kind of Government that We, the people, wanted ALL PEOPLE to be EQUALLY GOVERNED by-- but in todays world, some of our elected officials running our government is reversing their DUTY which they owed to their CREATORS of our Constitution-- We, the people! The Duties of our elected officials were to NOT CHANGE THE FORMS which create a MORE PERFECT union. Many of our government officials whom We, the people of today, elected to GOVERN US are trying to now FORM the WAYS of the people instead of the people forming the WAYS of the public officials that GOVERN We, the people. Now our preamble explains very clearly that We, the People, Ordained and Established this Constitution FOR the United States of America. We, the people, made the fair and equally balanced rules for all GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS to obey and follow. They set up how THEY wanted to be governed. Do you think for one moment that We, the people, wanted elected officials of GOVERNMENT to be able to GOVERN OUR RELIGION or our RELIGIOUS BELIEFS? They wanted our elected officials to govern bad or evil actions on LAND and the bad or evil ways or natures of the people with the POWER of GOVERNING. This Constitution had NOTHING to do with WE, the people; it had to do with the MIGHTY UNLIMITED POWER that these elected officials would have. This Constitution was made SURE so that Representatives could protect We, the people from all harm or danger. This Constitution, which was going to govern and protect the LAND and the people who FORMED, ORDAINED, AND ESTABLISHED the Constitution, was suppose to FORM A MORE PERFECT UNION in running a secured government. This was not just a union between We, the people; it was to form a MORE PERFECT union between the governing of land and the different types of people's nature. This Constitution was to also ESTABLISH justice; INSURE DOMESTIC tranquility, PROVIDE FOR the COMMON DEFENCE, PROMOTE the GENERAL welfare, and SECURE the BLESSINGS OF LIBERTY to ourselves (WE, THE PEOPLE), and OUR POSTERITY (all succeeding generations). This is our PRESERVED inheritance. The government was created by this COMPACT of UNION. Our Declaration of independence states-- That to secure these Rights of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their JUST Powers from the Consent of the Governed, and it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them at will whenever they become destructive if the ENDS for which they WERE established. The declared purpose of the COMPACT between We, the people, and government and how it is to be run is in each ARTICLE of the Constitution. NOWHERE in this Constitution does We, the people, give any authority to any office or public trust the Authority or the UNLIMITED POWER to stop any kind of establishment of religion or to put We, the people, under ANY RELIGIOUS TESTS. Prayer is an establishment of religion. Prayer is NOT a church. We are being put under a religious TEST here. Elected people can't ask for people to pray for our country?? We, the people, were also the CREATORS of NATURES LAWS. Everyone of our elected officials natures are NOT the same. Some want to lie, cheat and steal, while others would never think of lying, cheating, or stealing. It doesn't matter whether you are religious or not--all people have the oppertunity to do these things. The Bible says-- There is NONE righteous; no not one. Now do you think for one moment that We, the people, created, formed, or made LAWS to govern themselves concerning their religion or their religious beliefs? NO---NOT ONE! Our First Amendment is intrepreted WRONG, Congress shall make NO LAW respecting, regarding, about, or concerning an establishment of religion--and neither can our Supreme Court Justices. We, the people, gave them NO AUTHORITY to put any religious TESTS on any of us. Religious favoritism in prayers now being challenged by the Atheists. Our United States Constitution ends in the year of OUR LORD. If the LORD can be named in our Constitution then HIS NAME can be mentioned in any official prayer.
  • Lynda Turner commented on 5/22/2012
    God is indeed our true hope and refuge, in this time and in all times. Thank you for your service to Him and to our nation. Be blessed in the mighty Name of Jesus.
  • Loretta Lamb commented on 5/22/2012
    Every morning I start my day with prayer. I pray on and off throughout the day. Several ladies in our church gather to pray for our community, our church, our state, our nation and the world. I don't care who orders me not to pray, I will pray anyway. This is all so absurd. When did people get the idea that prayer is wrong or unconstitutional? The constitution I read says I am free to pray as often as I want, as long as I want and as much as I want. It is a normal way of life for many people and many others get blessed by the practice of prayer. Our nation will be in total peril if no one is allowed to pray aloud. Prayer is a privilege in this nation.
  • John R. Ashburn, Jr. commented on 5/22/2012
    Keep up the pressure. The whole issue of "seperation of Church and State" should be revisited by the Supreme Court. The Constitution gurantees freedom OF religion, not freedom FROM religion. This was intended to allow all citizens to worship in the faith of their choice (or not at all) and to prevent the Government from establishing a required national religion. This is the so called "separation". So long as all religions are given equal opportunity to display their symbols of faith there is no Constitutional conflict. This IS a Christian nation and Christian symbols should be allowed everywhere, including public property. This does not force any religion on anyone. Moreover, those people that claim to be offended have no standing. There is nothing in the Constitution or Bill of Rights that gurantees any protection from being "offended". Furthermore, denial of Christian religious markings, symbols, etc. offends me. i should have as much right to not be offended as others, if any such "rights" exist.
  • Jacqueline Eldridge commented on 5/22/2012
    Thank you so much Randy Forbes. We need people to fight for our right to pray, and you did just that. I am grateful. Someone who prays all of the time.
  • Amelia Barmoy commented on 5/22/2012
    Please continue to support the National Day of Prayer. I am very grateful for your efforts.
  • Sean Shearin commented on 5/22/2012
    Thank you for your stand for morality and our religious liberties. God bless and strengthen you.
  • Margaret Scow commented on 5/22/2012
    The First Prayer in Congress took place on September 7, 1774. Some of the Congressmen traveled for many hours and some days on foot, by horseback, etc. to get to the First Prayer Meeting. Some stood, others knelt but they all prayed fervently for our nation. Our nation was founded upon Christianity and our Constitution is loaded with biblical principles. Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalms 33:12
  • Diane Winston commented on 5/22/2012
    It amazes me how the First Amendment can be so incorrectly interpreted by supposedly intelligent judges. It is as clear as can be that we are free to exercise our religion, peaceably to assemble, and free to speak. That should settle the matter once and for all.
  • Dominick Capizola commented on 5/22/2012
    Can we just get judges that allow us to pray.What is happening to them Are they crazy. In Muslim countries they stop and pray Try and stop them Look at those devout Jews at the wailing wall daily try and stop them Just stop all of this stupidity we are a nation heading away from what mades us great God needs to be the head of our nation,stop with these wrong views of the constitution. enough already if people don,t want to pray thats their belief, who are they to take us as a nation away from God,
  • Jo Anne Gilmore commented on 5/22/2012
    First of all, thank you for the Congressional Prayer Caucus. What a wonderful group to have established at a time when we need prayer so much in our world. It is amazing to me, whether it is Colorado, Wisconsin or any other state to declare the Day of Prayer proclamation unconstitutional. Our country was founded by men who believed in prayer. Why would anyone want to change our country's roots after all these years? I truly believe that God has blessed America for all our many years. But if we should decide that we don't want God in our midst and we remove all His blessings, and prayer being one of them, then maybe we won't be so blessed anymore. I pray that all men and women will stand up and praise God in the highest and thank him for our freedoms, prayer being one of them.
  • Sadie Barlow commented on 5/22/2012
    I believe the first amendment protects our religion and our freedom of speech but that under that same amendment lies a clause separating our church and state. With that in mind, I fully support everyone's right to pray, but I DO NOT support any legislation that coincides with religion. There should definitely NOT be any government mandated "Day of Prayer".
  • Ernestine Scott commented on 5/22/2012
    Thank you for all your work to maintain moral values/prayer in our great country. Please continue
  • Prof. Edwin Martinez del Rio commented on 5/22/2012
    Congressman Forbes: Our nation was founded and blessed with prayer. Stay the course ! We are all so grateful for your continued efforts in support of prayer. kindly, Prof. Edwin Martinez del Rio M.A., M.B.A., M.H.S.A., Ed.S., A.B.D. Associate Campus Dean and Business Chair Strayer University,Chesapeake Campus email: edwin.martinez@strayer.edu Telephone: 757 436-8162
  • Norma Dowson commented on 5/22/2012
    Enough is enough!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why if it a Christian activity does it viloate the constitution yet any and every non-Christian activity MUST be observed by all. I am so very tired of every one's view is correct but the Christian view.
  • Catherine Hardy commented on 5/23/2012
    Thank you for supporting prayer in our Nation and the National Day of Prayer. WE must NEVER forget WHO is SOVEREIGN in this nation. May you continue by God's grace to persuade men of this truth.
  • Nancy Pendergrass commented on 5/23/2012
    Please do all that you can do to preserve the National Day of Prayer. Prayer is the only hope for our nation as we put our trust in Almighty God to heal, protect and direct us. Thank you for your hard work.
  • Virginia Wilson commented on 5/23/2012
    Congressman Forbes, I want to commend you for supporting our National Day of Prayer. What has happened to our nation, that people want to take that away from this wonderful and blessed country. What an honor and a priviledge it is to pray and spend time conversing with God. What happens to the rights of Christians? Have we become the violators of the Constitution? Our founding fathers prayed before battle to protect our very freedoms, now they want to take that away.. As a nation we must have faith and trust in God to protect this wonderful country we call "America" the land of the free the home of the brave. From one grateful and PROUD Christian to another Congressman Forbes, thank you for all of your continued and constant efforts in all your endeavors. May God bless you and I will continue to pray for you and our country that we will forever be united, we do not need to fall.
  • Robert Magee commented on 5/23/2012
    Our government has over steeped it;s authority as I see it. We who have a belief in our God are slowly looking our rights to do anything to serve Him. We are having to bow down to any small not believing group so that don't offend them. I'm sorry if they don't believe as they want us to believe but our country was founded on the Word of God and they can't change that. If they don't want to believe our God then they can go back to the country that they came from and serve their god any way that they choose to. They have no fight to come to this country and impose on us what they want us to believe. We base what we believe and how we live on the Word of God and that settles it.
  • Ann Babel commented on 5/23/2012
    Thank God you and others are out there fighting to uphold our religeous freedoms and our constitutional rights. Keep up the good work.
  • James Burtner commented on 5/23/2012
    The most important caucus in Congress, thank you for holding to prayer as part of the answer and the solution to our country's woes. If we do not stand up for prayer in this country, standing against judges who ignore our history and our founding principles, this nation is doomed to fail. It is in my prayers that those judges will be replaced with men who fear God, and who live according to Godly principles, as well as the original intent of our founding fathers, who called for national days of prayer regularly, even during the Revolutionary War. Who issued proclamations calling on all to submit themselves to fasting and prayer, with thanksgiving to God.
  • James Burtner commented on 5/23/2012
    If my people who are called by name will humble themselves and pray, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land. That is a promise this country must lean on. For anyone, especially in the unelected judiciary, to try to hamper or impede this nation's efforts at prayer, which is necessary to overcome the moral corruption that is swallowing this nation up, to try to take away the most powerful weapon we have on our side, must be resisted, fought, and brought down. This nation needs more prayer, more righteousness, and more goodness. With a 15 trillion dollar debt, the potential conflagration of the entire middle east if Iran continues pursuing nuclear weapons, wars on terror and on drugs, along with the problems with medicare, ss, defense spending, etc... You get the idea; this country faces a lot of problems and how to deal with those problems. Being anchored to our creator through prayer and faith is the one thing that can help us to deal with all of those issues. Not to mention, He is the source of our hope, which is what we need most of all to deal with these problems. They want to argue that we are a secular nation. That could not be further from the truth. The more accurate description would be that we are a nondenominational nation. But the point that they want to make us a secular nation means that they want us to be a Godless nation, the exact opposite of our founding fathers, who were totally reliant upon God. Just winning the revolutionary war required miracles to aid in saving our troops on many occasions, and it has been His guiding hand that has led us to to the great nation we became. But like Israel did throughout the old testament, we are turning away from. Which brings me back to the first sentence, which is a quote from 2 Chronicles 7:14. Pray for this nation, or watch the nation perish.
  • Horace Sagnor commented on 5/23/2012
    Thank God there are Men like you that are not afraid to stand up for whats right. I sure am proud of you Congressman Forbes. We need more God fearing man in our Congress & Senate. God Bless you Sir for all that you due. Horace Sagnor
  • Donald Mills commented on 5/24/2012
    Thank you for working so tirelessly to defend our religious freedoms. Please continue to support the National Day of Prayer
  • Linda Templet commented on 5/26/2012
    This is from Thomas Jeffersons Autobiagrophy 1743-1790. Read it people and get educated!! This shows us how Thomas Jefferson agreed with the other men that they need a NATIONAL DAY OF FASTING, HUMILIATION, AND PRAYER. THEY EVEN GOT THE CLERGY TO JOIN WITH THEM. NOW IT WAS NOT THE CLERGY THAT WENT TO GOVERNMENT--IT WAS THE GOVERNMENT WHO WENT TO THE CLERGY TO HELP WITH THE POWER OF PRAYER. These people got the CLERGY to call all their assemblies together so everyone could humble themselves TOGETHER TO PRAY FOR OUR COUNTRY!! June 1st was their DECLARATION OF IN----DEPENDENCE; they depended on ALMIGHTY GOD. Here is the TRUTH, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Read Thomas Jeffersons own words people....this is from the Avalon Project Yale University. "The next event which excited our sympathies for Massachusets was the Boston port bill, by which that port was to be shut up on the 1st of June, 1774. This arrived while we were in session in the spring of that year. The lead in the house on these subjects being no longer left to the old members, Mr. Henry, R. H. Lee, Fr. L. Lee, 3. or 4. other members, whom I do not recollect, and myself, agreeing that we MUST BODLY take an unequivocal STAND in the line with Massachusetts, determined to meet and consult on the proper measures in the council chamber, for the benefit of the library in that room. We were under conviction of the necessity of arousing our people from the lethargy into which they had fallen as to passing events; and thought that the appointment of A DAY OF GENERAL FASTING AND PRAYER would be most likely to call up & ALARM THEIR ATTENTION. No example of such a solemnity had existed since the days of our distresses in the war of 55. since which a new generation had grown up. With the help therefore of Rushworth, whom we rummaged over for the revolutionary precedents & forms of the Puritans of that day, preserved by him, we cooked up a resolution, somewhat modernizing their phrases, for appointing the 1st day of June, on which the Port bill was to commence, for a day of FASTING, HUMILIATION, AND PRAYER, to implore HEAVEN to avert from us the evils of civil war, to INSPIRE US with firmness in support of our rights, and to turn the hearts of the King & parliament to moderation & justice. To give greater EMPHASIS to our proposition, we agreed to wait the next morning on Mr. Nicholas, whose grave & RELIGIOUS CHARACTER was more in unison with the tone of our resolution and to solicit him to MOVE IT. We accordingly went to him in the morning. He moved it the same day; the 1st of June was proposed and IT PASSED WITHOUT OPPOSISTION. The Governor dissolved us as usual. We retired to the Apollo as before, agreed to an association, and instructed the commee of correspdce to propose to the corresponding commees of the other colonies to appoint deputies to meet in Congress at such place, _annually_, as should be convenient to direct, from time to time, the measures required by the general interest: and we declared that an ATTACK ON ANY ONE COLONY should be considered AS AN ATTACK ON THE WHOLE. This was in May. We further recommended to the several counties to elect deputies to meet at Wmsbg the 1st of Aug ensuing, to consider the state of the colony, & particularly to appoint delegates to a general Congress, should that measure be acceded to by the commees of correspdce generally. It was acceded to, Philadelphia was appointed for the place, and the 5th of Sep. for the time of meeting. We returned home, and in our several counties invited the CLERGY to meet assemblies of the people on the 1st of June, to perform the ceremonies of the day, & to address to them discourses suited to the occasion. The people met generally, with anxiety & alarm in their countenances, and the EFFECT OF THE DAY thro' the whole colony was like a SHOCK OF ELECTRICITY, arousing every man & placing him erect & solidly on his centre. Okay Congress July 4th is comming up--what perfect timing to celebrate our IN--DEPENDENCE; our dependence in Almighty God TO HELP US MAKE A DIVINE PROVIDENCE ON INDEPENDENCE DAY. If these forefathers called the CLERGY to join with them in forces of FASTING, HUMILIATION, AND PRAYER SO CAN YOU! Let us celebrate this July 4th, 2012 as our official IN--DEPENDENCE DAY. This is the Year of the Bible--our forefathers CALLED FOR ALMIGHTY GODS HELP and so can we!! We must start joining together people. Now is the time for people of all faiths to stand up together for this cause. The atheist will NOT take God out of sight and out of mind. We need to get excited people--we need to BRING ON THE GREATEST REVIVAL EVER SEEN. Want to help in the GREAT REVIVAL--email me lordsarmme@yahoo.com--The LORDS ARMY IS COMMING people.The Book of Revelations speaks of the LORDS ARMY--thats US people of faith. We just need more people like me who will stand up to the atheists and JUST SAY NO!! Let us show these atheist that we ARE a Christian Nation--We believe IN ALMIGHTY GOD--and we have FREEDOM OF RELIGION--not freedom fron religion! July 4, 2012 The Year of the Bible and our Declaration of IN--DEPENDENCE! Amen. Let us prove once and for all--WE ARE A CHRISTIAN NATION AND DON'T FOOL WITH OUR GOD!
  • Linda Templet commented on 5/31/2012
    Don't we have Freedom of Conscience in this country? This is a Conscience Issue Congress. Government can not MAKE a law concerning our Freedom of Conscience. Conscience tells the Catholics that only Catholics can teach Catholics how to be a Catholic. Now laws are being made to take away our Freedom of Conscience. WOW this government has made alot of POLITICAL ERRORS. Focus on Freedom of Conscience for alittle while.
  • Levi Crowdis commented on 5/31/2012
    America was in fact and has always been a nation founded on Godly principles by Christian leaders. Freedom of Religion was so important to our Founding Fathers that it was guaranteed in the First Amendment, which states: Congress shall make no law repecting an establishment of religion (Framers feared a national established religion like the Anglican Church of England), or prohibiting the free exercise thereof (meaning NO GOVERNMENT laws or interference in religious matters and YES that means prayer in schools, before sporting events, at governmental functions, etc.)! In fact many of the signers of the U.S. Constitution were ordained Protestant ministers; far from the lie that America was founded by secular humanists, deists, and atheists that the governement is now successfully brainwashing our youth with in the public schools. I trace this shift away from Christian principals and social morailty back to McCollum v. Board in 1948 that said religious instruction in public schools was a violation of the establishment clause and unconstitutional. After Engel v. Vitale in 1962, America started losing the religious battle and began watching society erode into immoral materialism, drug and alcohol abuse, single-parent homes, teen-pregnancy, crime, etc. It's really no wonder why Americans are lost and struggling today. It's simple, we allowed the Supreme Court and the federal government to steal away our children by being "political correct." I'm a public high school history teacher, and understand the real atmosphere in public education. We must bring back prayer and Biblical principles into society, beginning with school! God Bless America!
  • Kent Weston commented on 6/3/2012
    While I totally agree that we should continue to recognize National Day of Prayer, I believe we would have less controversy over prayer and the things of God if people (Christians) truly believed in what they believe as disciples of Christ, were really real. This alone is the cause of the complacency/apathy in Christians today. People do not believe the Bible as the true word of God!! What has been the primary cause of this problem is historical revisionism in our public schools throughout this great nation. Abraham Lincoln made the statement; “ The Philosophy in the school room in one generation will the philosophy of the government the next generation.” We (Christians) have sit back quietly doing nothing while atheist have been and continue to be very vocal in their philosophy and accomplishing the historical revisionism in the minds and hearts of our children through the public school system throughout America. If this generation truly believed the Word of God as written, we would demand that the public schools bring back the Bible to be taught as an elective subject in our public school classrooms without delay. The Bible is legal to be taught in our schools as was in the formation of this great nation when our forefathers endorsed The England Primer to be taught in our public school classrooms. What we say guides our everyday life decisions as Christians, yet we do not allow it to be offered as an elective subject in our public school of America, really shows our children how unimportant it is to us as Bible believing Christians. Please assist in any way that you can to bring the Bible (Actual Bible, not a book with scripture tainted with a world view) as an elective subject to be taught as history and literature to our children in public schools throughout America.
  • Linda Templet commented on 6/4/2012
    It's the REASON SEASON PEOPLE. Wow-- did you all see Queen Elizabeth's 60 YEAR DIAMOND JUBILEE Celebration. It was so beautiful--Just like going to a WEDDING CELEBRATION. Queen Elizabeth brought so much EXCITEMENT into her WHOLE country. Everyone was excited everywhere. She has RAINED in England for 60 YEARS and she will continue to RAIN till she deceides to stop her rain.That had to cost their government of England so much money to put on such a ROYAL WEDDING CELEBRATION. But you know what this did for their Country? IT REVIVED the people. This event sent a SHOCK OF ELECTRICITY throughout the people of England.They all JUMPED WITH EXCITEMENT. Hey--Queen Elizabeth did not care how much it cost their government concerning this CELEBRATION--this IS ROYALTY. This celebration EXCITED the people. This excitement got people stirred up emotionally. These people are ROYALTY and every single event is a ROYAL EVENT. They really know how to celebrate don't they. Music everywhere--people dancing in the streets--different groups singing in different places--whatever you want to eat--EXCITEMENT EVERYWHERE. People forgot about their worries and just enjoyed the celebration that was LIKE a MARRIAGE SUPPER.or RECEPTION. Follow me people.Pay close attention to what is happening. England had their National Time of Celebration honoring Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee RAIN. It even EXCITED the people here in America. It excited US to see these SO people were excited. But wait! Looks to me like England has the Queen to celebrate over but we have THE KING. Isn't it time for America to have a PLANNED NATIONAL CELEBRATION to honor our KING so everyone in the WORLD can get excited and join with US in our NATIONAL celebration also? Look at out WORLD today. It is just LIKE the DAYS of Noah. It is time for our country to have a MARRIAGE LIKE CELEBRATION also. What do we have to celebrate-----GODS RAIN!!!!! God told Noah it was going to rain forty days and forty nights --why? Well just read Genesis 6. The whole story is there and it is exactly like today's world. Let us not forget--the BIBLE IS THE BOOK OF LIFE. Men taking all the wives that they want--why in todays world men are even choosing men to be their wives. WOW! There were GIANTS in the earth during Noahs Time; don't we also have alot of GIANT organizations or monarchies ruining our country's vitrue, values and morals also. SEX--SEX--SEX has rained long enough in our country--NOW It is time for GODS REIGN TO COME and FLOOD our country. God said he was going to bring the REIGN because the WICKEDNESS OF MAN WAS GREAT in the earth, and EVERY IMAGINATION OF THE THOUGHTS OF HIS HEART was ONLY EVIL CONTINUELY. Same thing is happening today, God looked upon the earth, and BEHOLD, IT WAS CORRUPT--just like today: for ALL FLESH had CORRUPTED HIS WAY upon the earth. Once again, this is just like today. GODS REIGN is comming people. Get ready for the FLOOD because GODS REIGN is going to FLOOD this whole earth and is going to make this United States of America a DIVINE PROVIDENCE once GODS REIGN destroys all the earths wickedness and corruption. Okay Congress--if Englands government can FOOT THE BILL for a MARRIAGE like celebration to show HONOR to their QUEEN-- our government can also follow in their footsteps and we can have a NATIONAL CELEBRATION OF GODS REIGN COMMING. Join the CLERGY together Congress--prepare the ARK OF THE COVENANT--- July 4th 2012 celebration--the beginning of all church revivals--to bring GODS REIGN in our country. Let the BOMBS burst in the air this 4th of July and let us PROCLAIM our DAY of IN--DEPENDENCE of GODS REIGN. Can we virtually and morally clean up America? As long as GOD REIGNS in our lives we can do it. Want SEX off of television? Then a FLOOD OF PEOPLE have to ALL SAY NO together and have a PLAN to TURN IT OFF ON A CERTAIN DAY at the SAME TIME so that these BIG GIANTS of the entertainment industry can see that GOD REIGNS IN OUR LIVES and we WILL NOT LOOK AT THIS FILTH ON OUR TELEVISIONS ANY LONGER. These programs are programming our childrens MINDS. Don't want GAY AND LESBIAN programs PROGRAMMING your childrens MINDS??? Turn it off and LET GOD REIGN IN YOUR LIFE. GOD is our ALMIGHTY KING---People let's do some FASTING--LET GOD REIGN in your life for forty days and forty nights--FASTING means to give something up FOR GOD. Give up your televisions for this CAUSE--We want GODLY WAYS to REIGN IN AMERICA. Let us all MAKE 2012 The Year OF The Bible. We CHOOSE who we wanted to run our government --now let us CHOOSE who we want to REIGN in our lives. Let the REIGN begin. Amen!!! England might have the Queen but WE have the KING!!! God Bless America with your REIGN! Someone doesn't understand the story of Noahs Ark--Do you all think it is ME? God is a Spirit! Join in the LORDS ARM ME. We are going to turn this nation back to God!
  • jennifer marble commented on 11/29/2012
    Prayer is a way which connects us to god and it’s a greatest hope for our nations. Prayer gives a strength and courage to fight!!!!!!!!!!!
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