Are all U.S. governors issuing prayer proclamations?
According to Focus on the Family, only one governor is refusing to issue a NDP proclamation this year: Jesse Ventura (I-Minn.). Ironically, Jim Weidmann, vice chairman of the NDP Task Force, replied to Ventura’s inaction by telling Focus that “citizens don’t need a governor’s proclamation to pray.” Coincidentally, that’s exactly what advocates of church-state separation believe, leaving many to wonder why citizens need an official prayer day if they already can pray whenever they wish. Even without a decree from the governor’s desk, the people of Minnesota will be able to pray, or not pray, based on the dictates of their beliefs and conscience. What did the Founding Fathers think of government prayer proclamations? Key Founders such as James Madison and Thomas Jefferson thought presidential prayer day proclamations were violations of the constitutional separation of church and state. Jefferson, the nation’s third president and a leading visionary on religious liberty, refused to issue
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