{"id":2512,"date":"2004-09-13T11:29:16","date_gmt":"2004-09-13T16:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2512.html"},"modified":"2004-09-13T11:29:16","modified_gmt":"2004-09-13T16:29:16","slug":"evangelist-in-chief-strikes-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/evangelist-in-chief-strikes-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Evangelist-in-chief strikes again"},"content":{"rendered":"

You may not have heard, but with the third anniversary of the 9\/11 attacks occurring over the weekend, Bush issued a proclamation once again taking it upon himself to urge Americans to pray. Indeed, he proclaimed<\/a> Sept. 10-12 as “National Days of Prayer and Remembrance.”<\/p>\n

Because I keep track<\/a> of such things, I’d like to note that Bush has declared 19 official, government-sponsored days of prayer in about 44 months, which translates to an official prayer declaration from the White House once every 2.3 months<\/i> since Bush was inaugurated. No president in U.S. history has ever issued so many official prayer edicts.<\/p>\n

The point isn’t that there’s something wrong with worship; the point is Americans don’t need their president telling them which days he wants them to pray. It’s none of Bush’s business and it far exceeds his job description.<\/p>\n

Bush heads the executive branch of a secular government that separates church and state. The U.S. may be one of the most religious nation’s in the world, but therein lies the point — Americans are more than capable of deciding on their own whether to worship and we don’t need the White House setting aside special “prayer days.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You may not have heard, but with the third anniversary of the 9\/11 attacks occurring over the weekend, Bush issued a proclamation once again taking it upon himself to urge Americans to pray. Indeed, he proclaimed Sept. 10-12 as “National Days of Prayer and Remembrance.” Because I keep track of such things, I’d like to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}