Like they'd actually have taken the prayer out...

[conuly]

This late in the game, that'd be admitting that God does not sanction this election.

Unless he does. Or doesn't exist. Or whatever. But any god who'd sanction Bush as president is not the god for me.

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[rainbowdarling.livejournal.com]

He is requesting that there be prayers at his ceremony, not that of, say, John Kerry. He has the right.

[conuly]

But it's not his ceremony. It's not like a wedding where the only important people are the bride and groom. It's a public ceremony, and it doesn't belong to him. It belongs to the public - all of us who love and defend the establishment clause.

[zathras26.livejournal.com]

But it's not his ceremony, it's the entire nation's ceremony. And it's being paid for, at least in part, by tax dollars. Using tax dollars for a religious purpose is a violation of the First Amendment.