{"id":356,"date":"2010-04-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/communitynews\/2010\/04\/prayer-and-politics.html"},"modified":"2010-04-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T00:00:00","slug":"prayer-and-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/communitynews\/2010\/04\/prayer-and-politics.html","title":{"rendered":"Prayer and Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American political system has been dealing with controversial topics recently. Should President Obama consider the <a href=\"http:\/\/community.beliefnet.com\/go\/thread\/view\/59723\/23167537\/National_Day_of_Prayer_Law_Declared_Unconstitutional\">National Day of Prayer<\/a> constitutional or unconstitutional? What side of the debate are you on? 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