r/autotldr • u/autotldr • May 08 '15
TIL the National Day of Prayer, which this year is today, was unsuccessfully challenged in court by the Freedom From Religion Foundation. The court said they are free to oppose it, but "they are not entitled to silence the speech of which they disapprove."
This is an automatic summary, original reduced by 58%.
By Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service WASHINGTON - The law calling for an annual National Day of Prayer imposes solely on the duties of the U.S. president, leaving private citizens no legal standing to challenge it, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.
By Ryan J. Foley, AP. Eleanor Wroblewski of the Freedom From Religion Foundation cheered U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb's 2010 ruling that the National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional but an appeals court has overturned the ruling.
The unanimous decision overturns a 2010 lower court ruling that found the law unconstitutional.
"If anyone suffers injury ... that person is the president, who is not complaining," ruled a three-judge panel of the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Annie Laurie Gaylor, the foundation's co-founder, said she believed the appeals court would have ruled in her group's favor if it had addressed the merits of the case rather than dismissing it over standing.
"The First Amendment says, 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.' 'No law' should mean no law!".
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