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 There are many reasons the government should not be in the prayer business. “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,” as the First Amendment begins, immediately comes to mind. Legal issues aside, media stories about the recent tornadoes in Oklahoma vividly demonstrate two practical reasons.
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A new and wonderful book has come out that responsibly engages the contentious debate about how the framers understood religion and religious liberty in the formation of our national government. Titled Endowed by Our Creator: The Birth of Religious Freedom in America (Yale University Press, 2012) and penned by Michael I. Meyerson — a constitutional law and American legal history professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law — the book is a comprehensive, thoroughly researched presentation of the development of our framers’ understanding of religious freedom from pre-revolutionary colonial days through the presidency of James Madison.