What is wrong with today?

The National Day of Prayer supposedly preaches tolerance, diversity, and freedom.

However, it does not embrace diversity. It's now basically a Christian observance, with more than 30,000 events nationwide promoted by the National Day of Prayer Task Force, an organization that requires its volunteer coordinators to agree to a statement that reads in part, "I believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God and the only one by which I can obtain salvation and have an ongoing relationship with God." -chicago tribune column by Eric Zorn

And better yet is the details about the Task Force. 

"We're not an official group," said task force spokesman Michael Calhoun in response to a question I left on his voice mail. "Where did you get that idea?" 
EZ: From "National Day of Prayer Official Website," the logo on top of every page at ndptf.org, I told him.
"Oh," he said. "That just means we're the official Web site of the task force that promotes the Judeo-Christian expression of the National Day of Prayer."
EZ: A "Judeo-Christian expression" that excludes Jews?"

BLEH!

The column goes into moer detail about the counter to the National Day of Prayer, which is the National Day of Reason.  I like the idea behinds it.  But, as yezida put in her LJ, I don't want either to be mandated.