Press Release  

  
For release: May 5, 1993  
  
	American Atheists today decried the "Defame the First  
Amendment" Day which has been scheduled by both state
officials and church mentors, acting together to mount "A
National Day of  Prayer" across the nation.  
  
	"Every one of the politicians know that their call for
prayer is an unconstitutional commingling of religion and  
government -- but they will commit any crime for a vote,"  
remarked Jon Murray, the president of American Atheists.   
  
	In the State of Texas, and other bastions of religion,
the governor, the state Senate, and mayors of various cities
have joined the insult to the Constitution by asking the
religious to "come out" onto taxpayer-owned property (city
halls and capitol steps) the better to defame the First
Amendment.  
  
	"It is what we can expect of air-heads who feel that
their careers in politics are greater than the Constitution
- and that includes both Bill and Hillary Clinton.  
  
	"The nation needs secular solutions to its secular
socio-economic and cultural problems not useless prayers
thrown in the air," opined Madalyn O'Hair, the founder of
American Atheists.  
  
	American Atheists insist that the Congress of the
United States betrayed the First Amendment when the National
Day of Prayer call was first issued in 1988. Reagan, Bush,
and now Clinton, have joined in the hypocrisy and deceit of
citizens.   
  
  
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