Next Thursday, May 1, is the National Day of Prayer -- that abhorrently unconstitutional congressionally mandated day each year when our government tells us all that we should pray.
Now, the organization that I work for, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), is not trying to completely abolish the National Day of Prayer -- not because we approve of it, but simply because the issue of the existence of this infelicitous day just doesn't fall within the purview of our organization's mission. What does fall within our purview, however, are any violations of military regulations or any religious discrimination against members of the military that occur because of the National Day of Prayer. And this year we have two such within-our-purview situations happening.
The first of the two is one that we are taking direct action to stop -- the planned appearance of uniformed military personnel at Shirley Dobson's big shindig at the Cannon House Office Building.