WisPolitics Budget Blog

Today is National Day of Prayer, and I waited throughout the day to hear from Freedom from Religion's Annie Laurie Gaylor on what wacky lawsuit she would bring to oppose this day of distinction.

Gaylor is currently bringing some sort of action against Edgerton, for granting city employees a paid holiday on Good Friday. Her anti-religious cause has also brought lawsuits against many communities for displaying nativity scenes on public grounds at Christmas.

Gaylor lives way-out on the fringe of religious intolerance. Her soul must be as empty as her head.

All of the great social changes in this country were inspired by people of faith. And the public square was the venue where radical notions espoused by abolishionists, suffragettes, and pastors of the civil rights movement changed humanity.

In Rock County, we are fortunate to have a non-Gannett-owned daily newspaper that each week prints a section titled, Faith. Thanks to the Janesville Gazette for protecting free speech against anti-religious whack-jobs.

Today, I will keep this verse in mind, as I wait for Gaylor to attack people of faith and the roots of our democracy;

Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances.
I Thessalonians 5:16-19

I may even say a quiet prayer for Gaylor -- in the rotunda of the state capitol.