this is so wrong

[cellio]

The House is currently considering a bill to declare a national day of fasting and prayer to seek help from "Providence" in these times of terror and war.

My representative will certainly be hearing from me about this blatant disregard for the separation of church and state. Much as they would like to make it so, we are not a Christian nation -- just a nation with a Christian majority. This has no place in government.

From the bill:

Whereas all of the various faiths of the people of the United States have recognized, in our religious traditions, the need for fasting and humble supplication before Providence;

"All the various faiths"? I don't think so. For starters, atheism can be a "faith" rather than an absence of faith. And I'm not so sure that all of the eastern religions have this concept.

Whereas humility, fasting, and prayer in times of danger have long been rooted in our essential national convictions and have been a means of producing unity and solidarity among all the diverse people of this Nation as well as procuring the enduring grace and benevolence of God;

Asserting it does not make it so. Show me those roots in our essential national convictions, Mr. Akin (the sponsor).

Thanks to magid for the link.

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Thanks

[psu-jedi.livejournal.com]

Saw your post from JeanneGrrl's friends page. I was going to write the MD guy who co-sponsored this, but he's not in my district, and I didn't figure I'd change his mind much. So I wrote my MD rep instead. I've alerted my friends and co-workers to it as well. I was very surprised to hear about it on our local news radio station yesterday, and I might not have paid attention to it if I didn't see it on your page earlier. Thanks.

Re: Thanks

[cellio]

You're welcome. (Though I'm not the first LJ person to find it; I got the link from magid, and I don't know where she got it.) Thanks for writing to your rep. I didn't even try writing to the sponsor; I figured he wouldn't pay any attention to a non-constituent. But I did write to mine, for what that's worth.