The criticism that President Barack Obama has been taking from the likes of Rush Limbaugh and conservative Christian commentators for discontinuing the White House National Prayer Day events reminds me of what a courageous Utah public servant once told me.
Doug Bates was the attorney for the State Office of Education in the 1980s when the ACLU was embroiled in a lawsuit with some Utah school districts to block them from allowing public prayer at high school graduation ceremonies.
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