ACLU and the Elimination of Public Prayer

While wallowing in the research and writing of a criminal sentencing appeals brief (due next Monday), I have hardly taken the time to look at the recent news, much less spent any time looking at my emails.

However, one of them took my breath away. As a former agnostic, and now a Christian, I am appalled at the viewpoint of the ACLU, as shown by an important member of the organization.

The disturbing quote, recieved via an email from the Alliance Defense Fund, is: "Their refusal to comply . . . should and must result in their removal from society." From Joe Cook, Executive Director of the ACLU of Louisiana, referring to individuals who insist on praying publicly.

I pray publicly. In my car, sitting on a bench, alone in a meeting room, and while doing other things. Sometimes silently (actually mostly silently), and sometimes aloud. Most of the time alone, and on occasion, with another person. What business is it of the government when and where I do it? Must I always be silent?