Prez Obama Proclomates National Day of Prayer

From Fox News: It's not a crisis of biblical proportions, but President Obama's plan to recognize the National Day of Prayer on Thursday with a paper proclamation, rather than a public event at the White House, is ruffling some religious feathers.

"We are disappointed in the lack of participation by the Obama administration," Shirley Dobson, chairwoman of the National Day of Prayer Committee, said in a statement. "At this time in our country's history, we would hope our president would recognize more fully the importance of prayer."

The Interfaith Alliance couldn't disagree more.
"It is a shame that the National Day of Prayer Task Force seems to think it owns the National Day of Prayer," the group's president, the Rev. C. Welton Gaddy, said in a statement.

"Once again, the Task Force is misrepresenting the purpose of this national observance," he said. "President Obama is not the Pastor-in-Chief of the nation and Shirley Dobson's Task Force is not the spiritual judge of the president's personal or official actions."

During his two terms in office, President Bush marked the day by inviting Christian and Jewish leaders to the White House East Room, where he typically gave a short speech and several of the participants offered prayers.

During the Clinton administration, task-force leaders held more low-profile events, including at Lafayette Park across the street.

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs defended the administration's plan.

"I think the president understands, in his own life and in his family's life, the role that prayer plays," Gibbs said. "And I would denote that the administrations prior to the past one did proclamations. That's the way the president will publicly observe the national prayer day. But, as I said, privately, he'll pray as he does every day."

I am so happy to see a president putting an observance like this back into the hands of individuals! I love the statement that says, "President Obama is not the Pastor-in-Chief of the nation..."

We are a nation of FREE thinkers, FREEdom to choose where we live, what we do for a living, and what religion we want to observe.

People clammor for a government that keeps its hands out of the daily lives of the people yet people are horrified that the white house will not invite in religious leaders for a national day of prayer. Sort of a contradiction don't you think? We are a nation founded on religious FREEdom not one specific religion.

So that's my soapbox of the day....may you observe this National Day of Prayer in your own personal way!

I'm so confused lol

I've not been a big political person before this year's election. This is quite a year to say the least.

I just do not know with 100% certainty who to vote for! The ads of course are not dependable to listen to as they are usually twisted and sometimes false altogether. Some of the television networks are so biased that its rediculous. So....I try to go to each canidate's sites to read for myself.

However I do like FOXnews Network. They are the 'least' biased however sometimes you can tell when a reporters personal opinions are seeping through in their report.

So I just keep on reading for myself and listening to all different analysts' views and hopefully in the next few weeks I can make the right choice. *sigh*

Eckhart Tolle's Book A New Earth

If you have not read this book yet I highly recommend it. It is not about a new religion, it is not a cult, no one is starting a church, it is purely about awakening yourself to what you already believe. Being a more aware person.