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Legal Experts Blast Judge’s Decision: ‘If National Day of Prayer Is Unconstitutional, the Constitution Is Unconstitutional’

(CNSNews.com) - Conservative legal experts say a federal district judge in Wisconsin had no legal basis for declaring the National Day of Prayer unconstitutional – and predict the decision cannot stand.

“If the National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional, then the Constitution itself if unconstitutional,” Mathew Staver, president of Liberty Counsel and dean of the Liberty University School of Law in Lynchburg, Va., told CNSNews.com.

“The National Day of Prayer – or prayer itself – is older than the Constitution,” Staver said. “There is no question (this ruling) will be overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court.” [...]

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Permalink Reply by qnr on April 18, 2010 at 6:04am

OK, they might be legal experts, but declaring that "the Constitution itself if unconstitutional" [sic] borders on idiocy.

Permalink Reply by Loren Miller on April 18, 2010 at 6:17am

Would these be the same "experts" that assert that the US is a christian nation?

Permalink Reply by Aaron S. (USA) on April 18, 2010 at 6:29am

No, these are the ones that say that torture is allowed under the Geneva Conventions.

Permalink Reply by Stephen Moore on April 18, 2010 at 7:40am

And of course, the claim is never substantiated.

But it is Conservative Christian logic that is utilised, so it is to be expected that much of what they pronounce will be nonsense.

Permalink Reply by Jaume on April 18, 2010 at 8:15am

Conservative Christian logic

Please refrain from using profanity on this site.

Permalink Reply by Glenn Sogge on April 18, 2010 at 3:09pm

or from using oxymorons.

Permalink Reply by Jason Spicer on April 19, 2010 at 12:22pm

I think the whole problem is that morons get way too much oxygen.

Permalink Reply by The Secular One on May 15, 2010 at 8:51pm

Or perhaps not near enough?

Permalink Reply by The Secular One on May 15, 2010 at 8:51pm

That made me giggle.

Permalink Reply by Susan Stanko on April 18, 2010 at 7:53am

Why am I not surprised to see this from Liberty University?

Permalink Reply by Donna Darko on April 18, 2010 at 8:33am

I looked up the word "prayer" on dictionary.com and saw there were nine definitions. The first several, of course, included "god" in the definition. But the eighth and ninth definitions caught my eye.

8. the section of a bill in equity, or of a petition, that sets forth the complaint or the action desired;
9. a negligible hope or chance: Do you think he has a prayer of getting that job?

Since the gentleman quoted is a lawyer, perhaps it's definition eight he was thinking of, rather that an entreaty to a deity. But it's number nine that I really like. It reduces prayer to its real worth: nothing.

Permalink Reply by Susan Stanko on April 18, 2010 at 9:01am

If he is from Liberty University then I doubt it.