{"id":74,"date":"2010-04-15T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/04\/judge-rules-national-day-of-prayer-is-unconstitutional-obama-will-still-recognize-it.html"},"modified":"2010-04-15T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T18:00:00","slug":"judge-rules-national-day-of-prayer-is-unconstitutional-obama-will-still-recognize-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/04\/judge-rules-national-day-of-prayer-is-unconstitutional-obama-will-still-recognize-it.html","title":{"rendered":"National Day of Prayer Ruled Unconstitutional; Obama Will Still Recognize It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, so maybe this is what&nbsp;prompted<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/04\/president-obama-has-not-cancelled-national-day-of-prayer.html\"> today&#8217;s (<strong>false<\/strong>) rumor that President&nbsp;Obama was canceling National Day of Prayer 2010:<\/a> a federal district judge in Wisconsin <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20100415\/ap_on_re_us\/us_day_of_prayer\">has ruled that the 1988 law creating the annual observance is unconstitutional.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According&nbsp;to the Associated Press story, the order does not block any prayer day until after appeals in the case are exhausted;&nbsp;White House&nbsp;officials have confirmed that&nbsp;Obama still plans to recognize the observance on May 6, now in its 59th year. (The 1988 law was just more specific.)&nbsp;As of&nbsp;6 p.m. today, there&nbsp;wasn&#8217;t anything about this ruling posted on the&nbsp;official National Day of Prayer site,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/nationaldayofprayer.org\/news\/the-latest\/lawsuit-update\/\">aside from the&nbsp;information posted about the lawsuit a&nbsp;few months ago<\/a>,&nbsp;so I assume organizers aren&#8217;t too worried.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, this is not to be confused with the similarly controversial&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/04\/us\/politics\/04prayer.html\">National Prayer Breakfast<\/a>, which took place in February.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">*<a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=beliefnet\/beliefbeat\">Click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>subscribe to Belief Beat<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/a>and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>follow Belief Beat on Twitter<\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, so maybe this is what&nbsp;prompted today&#8217;s (false) rumor that President&nbsp;Obama was canceling National Day of Prayer 2010: a federal district judge in Wisconsin has ruled that the 1988 law creating the annual observance is unconstitutional. According&nbsp;to the Associated Press story, the order does not block any prayer day until after appeals in the case&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>National Day of Prayer Ruled Unconstitutional; Obama Will Still Recognize It - Belief Beat<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/04\/judge-rules-national-day-of-prayer-is-unconstitutional-obama-will-still-recognize-it.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"National Day of Prayer Ruled Unconstitutional; Obama Will Still Recognize It - Belief Beat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ah, so maybe this is what&nbsp;prompted today&#8217;s (false) rumor that President&nbsp;Obama was canceling National Day of Prayer 2010: a federal district judge in Wisconsin has ruled that the 1988 law creating the annual observance is unconstitutional. 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