57% of Americans Favor the National Day of Prayer
According to a recent USA Today/Gallup Poll of 1,000 adults, 57% of Americans favor the National Day of Prayer, 38% don’t care either way, 4.5% oppose it, and .5% don’t know or refuse to answer. My favorite line from Cathy Lynn Grossman’s article: “For most 18- to 29-year-olds, it could be the National Day of Whatever — 59% said it doesn’t matter.”
For these Baptists, the separation of church and state is essential. K. Hollyn Hollman, general counsel of the Baptist Joint Committee for
Religious Liberty, said “a day of prayer is more appropriately called
for by our religious leaders – not civil magistrates, Congress or even
the president. . . . The government shouldn’t be in the business of telling the American
people what, where or when to pray or even if they should pray.”
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