Prayer's needed for President Bush

Some people have way to much time on there hands. There's a group of people attacking president Bush's belief in Christ. We need to stand behind our president in his faith and in prayer. This is the article about these people attacking our president.


Atheist Group Takes on Bush InitiativeThursday, February 22, 2007 4:20 AM ESTThe Associated PressBy RYAN J. FOLEY
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Annie Laurie Gaylor speaks with a soft voice, but her message catches attention: Keep God out of government.
Gaylor has helped transform the Freedom From Religion Foundation from obscurity into the nation's largest group of atheists and agnostics, with a fast-rising membership and increasing legal clout.
Next week, the group started by Gaylor and her mother in the 1970s to take on the religious right will fight its most high-profile battle when the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments on its lawsuit against President Bush's faith-based initiative.
The court will decide whether taxpayers can sue over federal funding that the foundation believes promotes religion. It could be a major ruling for groups that fight to keep church and state separate.
"What's at stake is the right to challenge the establishment of religion by the government," Gaylor said.
The 51-year-old once donned a nun's habit as a college student in 1977 to protest a judge who blamed rape on women who wear provocative clothing.
She uses different tactics these days, though her activism remains strong.
Among its victories, the group has stopped funding for a Milwaukee charity that Bush visited during the 2000 campaign and an Arizona group that preached to children of prisoners.
The case in front of the high court claims White House conferences to promote the faith-based initiative turn into unconstitutional pep rallies for religion.
The initiative helps religious organizations get government funding to provide social services.
George Washington University law professor Ira Lupu called the Madison-based foundation "by far the most aggressive litigating entity against the faith-based initiative."
"When they can prove there's religious content in those programs, they've been quite successful and they've won a few cases," Lupu said. "When they've tried to go after the initiative as a whole, they've been less successful."
Critics say the group imposes such an extreme view of the First Amendment that religious groups can't receive tax dollars for even laudable purposes.
"They are successful in the sense that they have disrupted government funding for faith-based initiatives," said Jordan Lorence of the Alliance Defense Fund, which defends religion in the public arena. "But real people with real problems are no longer getting help because of some of their lawsuits."
The group has grown as its legal challenges mount. It claims 8,500 members in 50 states, with the most coming from California, after adding a record 400 in December.
Members consider themselves freethinkers who form opinions based on reason, not faith.
Gaylor is hoping an advertising campaign on progressive talk radio, the Internet and in liberal magazines helps the group reach 10,000 members this year.
She and husband Dan Barker, a former fundamentalist minister who turned against religion, are co-presidents. Her mother, Anne Nicol Gaylor, founded the group in 1978 to counter religious influence in government after clashing with religious leaders over abortion.


We not only need to be praying for the president, but we also need to be praying for the people that are supporting this group. We need to pray that there eyes will be opened to the real truth's that there is a God that loves them. That what they're doing is wrong and that they'll be saved. God can do all things! We need to pray for our country that we move closer to God. That Christians will start standing up for what the believe just like our President. Have a great weekend.