Lemons, Atheists, and the Establishment Clause

The unenforceable and mostly ignored "National Day of Prayer" was declared unconstitutional by U.S. District Judge Barbara B. Crabb this past week. This is a wet dream come true for militant atheists. If it goes to the Supreme Court, it'll probably get overturned though. It could be overturned by the 7th Circuit, but the judges there are, for the most part, anti-Christian bigots and secularists that have no use for the Constitution.

I love this line from Mathew Staver, president of Liberty Counsel and dean of the Liberty University School of Law in Lynchburg, Va., “If the National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional, then the Constitution itself if unconstitutional.”

Even Obama, who in his first year of office ignored the day, as have many presidents in the past, saying it's ceremonial and is just “acknowledgment of the role of religion in American life”. Militant atheists and their secular fellow travelers must drive religion out because only then can the power of the State become absolute.

While researching this unconstitutional ruling against what's in the Constitution's Establishment Clause, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.” I came upon the "Lemon Test".

Militant atheists and their secular friends want the clause to mean that there can be no religion shown in the public square at all. In a recent debate on Facebook, one of my opponents said religion should be made illegal. So much for freedom of expression and freedom of religion, but Statists have to get rid of the Constitution along with religion.

Since Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971), there has been a application, a test, questions written by Chief Justice Warren Burger for the majority opinion.
They are:

The government's action must have a secular legislative purpose;

The government's action must not have the primary effect of either advancing or inhibiting religion;

The government's action must not result in an "excessive government entanglement" with religion.

These questions have been a solid legal guide for decades, and when applied to this National Prayer day ruling, it will have to be overturned. Unless of course, Obama's new Justice is sworn in, then the Constitution and the rule of law pretty much goes out the window for about a generation, if not forever. Then the secularist will have the individual beholden to the State in all things, and constitutional democracy will have seen its day. Atheism is a religion by the way. The Supremes have said so. Makes sense; they have faith there is no God, they (the militant ones anyway) proselytize, and go to meetings to support each other.

Thing is, since I'm a Christian, I hang out with a lot of similar thinking people as myself, and I've never had conversations saying the equivalent hateful things, and lies, about atheists and secularists than what they say about us. If the subject comes up at all, it's about their attacks on us, their intolerance and bigotry, and how to protect ourselves. One way, is to embrace the traditions that grew this country to be the most successful in human history, and the other is to obey the rule of law set forth in the Constitution. Atheists and secularists reject both.