IFPC files brief in support of National Day of Prayer

The Iowa Family Policy Center (IFPC) has signed onto an amicus brief by Liberty Institute supporting the National Day of Prayer in the case of Freedom from Religion Foundation v. Obama.

IFPC President Chuck Hurley said he was pleased to add his signature to the “growing national outcry over yet another court opinion that flies in the face of our history and heritage as a nation.”

The suit stems from the April ruling by U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb ruled that the federal government's observation of prayer is unconstitutional, despite the clear intentions of Congress to call for a day of prayer, the support of nearly every president in our nation's history and numerous rulings from the U.S. Supreme Court that affirm long-standing traditions of religious invocations, he said.

Congress passed a statute in 1952 calling for the president to issue a proclamation designating the National Day of Prayer.

Other signers of the brief include Dr. James Dobson, the Family Research Council (FRC), Focus on the Family Action (Citizenlink), the American Civil Rights Union (ACRU), Let Freedom Ring and Liberty Counsel, along with 27 other family policy councils located in states nationwide.

The signers argue that not only is the National Day of Prayer constitutional, but that Judge Crabb's ruling establishes active hostility to religion and must be reversed.

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