[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 5]
[House]
[Pages 5940-5941]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER RULING

  (Mr. DAVIS of Kentucky asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DAVIS of Kentucky. Mr. Speaker, last week U.S. District Judge 
Barbara Crabb ruled that the National Day of Prayer violates the first 
amendment to the Constitution despite decades of statute and tradition. 
This is another disappointing example of activist judges making 
decisions that fly in the face of the Constitution, violating 
congressional intent, and the values of our Founders. John Adams 
declared, ``Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious 
people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.''
  Every year on the first Thursday of May we gather as a people to pray 
and acknowledge our Nation's need and place before eternity. George 
Washington said, ``Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to 
political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable. In vain 
would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to 
subvert these great pillars of human happiness.''
  This ruling is not what our Founders intended and does a disservice 
to our history as a religious Nation. I call on Attorney General Eric 
Holder to appeal this ruling.

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