Kate Cohen: A National Day of Prayer? James Madison would be horrified.

"When the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom passed in 1786, James Madison, its champion, wrote to Thomas Jefferson, its author, “I flatter myself we have in this country extinguished forever the ambitious hope of making laws for the human mind."

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/30/abolish-national-prayer-day/

A National Day of Prayer? James Madison would be horrified.

The problem isn’t that our religious laws fail to include everyone. The problem is that we have religious laws.

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