National Day Of Prayer Service Cancelled By Obama, Causes Stir

by Colby Hall | 10:33 am, April 15th, 2010

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The Obama Administration canceled the White House service to observe the National Day of Prayer, causing a big stir among those who may be looking for reasons or examples to question the President’s faith. It turns out that the President did not cancel the actual day, but rather the ecumenical service, a tradition that only started under the previous administration.

Writing for the LA Times, Johanna Neuman reports:

On the first Thursday of May, dedicated as the National Day of Prayer, President George W. Bush hosted an ecumenical service in the East Room, a big public endorsement of evangelical Christians. (This event is different from the National Prayer Breakfast, held outside the White House gates every year on the first Thursday of February.)

President Obama opted not to have a service in the White House this year.

“Prayer is something that the president does every day,” explained White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, adding that Obama will sign a proclamation to recognize the day. “I think the president understands, in his own life and in his family’s life, the role that prayer plays.”

There is a huge difference between canceling the entire National Day of Prayer and just the White House service that recognizes it, though that confusion appears to be something that critics of Obama have latched on to, judging by Google Trends.

barack obama, National Day Of Prayer Service

Flugendorf

Look – the L.A. Times story that you link to is dated from 2009! Not 2010. That was what Obama did in 2009.

And I haven’t found anyone talking about this yet who ISN’T responding to a story that turns out to be a 2009 story!

Is there any information about this that actually refers to what Obama is doing in 2010, or is this all just one huge passed on error?
http://www.facebook.com/people/Jeffrey-Weeks/1329438782 Jeffrey Weeks

here’s the story- http://bit.ly/bZ8tA8
http://www.facebook.com/people/Jonathan-A-Cohen/1421861353 Jonathan A Cohen

http://www.snopes.com has this report:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/photos/prayerday.asp
Nachi

To what Pig God do you suppose those nitwits pray??
Snipzor

Well it’ll still be the day I pray to Cthulhu, nothing you can do will change that. But anyways, the outrage is completely faked. I’m sure the people complaining are the same complaining about tomorrow being the Day of Silence.
http://thedailybarb.com Jack Burns

I hope he cancels it again. Government has no business dictating when to pray, only to stimulate it…
http://thedailybarb.com Jack Burns

Ah HA. The courts say its unconstitutional. I love it when I’m right!
Latin2

If that is the case BAN Christmas and Easter vacation.

Collect and reprint and remint ALL money.

and stop singing songs like “God Bless America”.
Sunnyr

“Prayer is something that the president does every day,” explained White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, adding that Obama will sign a proclamation to recognize the day. “I think the president understands, in his own life and in his family’s life, the role that prayer plays.”
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Coming from the Minister of Propaganda, I would say this is pure CRAP! The doofus is probably praying for his own survival, if anything. Counting the days until 2012!
imnotyourkind

Why the outrage? The National Day of Prayer still exist even though we don’t need one. We can pray freely. One of the wonderful things about the U.S.A.
Bro. Greg

King Ahab sanctioned prayer to the false god baal. Now a U.S. president opts not to have prayer on the National Day of Prayer, so as not to offend. Then later, goes and has prayer with non-believers(heathen) to their false god. Is Our GOD pleased with this breaking of a commandment?
LORD JESUS we repent of our idolatry forgive us as a nation for this sin that we have commited against you.
Just me

http://islamoncapitolhill.com/ this was just sent to me…I never knew about this until now. Seems it speaks of the end times when people either convert to a false God religion or they are killed.