Welcome to the Daily Article Podcast for Thursday, May 5th, 2022.

I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, narrating today's article written by Dr. Jim

Denison.

This week, a Supreme Court ruling made headlines.

I'm not referring to the draft by Justice Samuel

Alito of a majority opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade. The day before the leak heard

round the world, the court ruled that Boston violated the free speech rights of a person

when it refused to fly a Christian flag on a flagpole outside Boston City

Hull. The court determined that the city discriminated against Harold Shirtleff because of his

religious viewpoint. Boston had approved 284 consecutive applications to fly flags before rejecting shirtlifts because he wanted to fly a Christian flag.

Here's the amazing part.

The Supreme Court not only overturned lower courts that had cited against Shirtliff, but it did so by a unanimous nine-to-zero decision. And that decision was

written by Justice Stephen Breyer, who was nominated by President Bill Clinton and is considered

the second most liberal member of the court. On this National Day of Prayer, let's give thanks for the freedom to have a National Day of Prayer,

a right that would be unthinkable for Christians in many countries around the world.

And let's use this right as God intends, which is more counterintuitive than you might think.

I'm grateful that the Continental Congress issued a

national call to prayer in 1775. I'm also grateful that Billy Graham's call for America's

leaders to unite in prayer during the Korean War led to the National Day of Prayer tradition

that began in 1952. However, I'm confident that American leaders who believe in prayer also believe that we need to pray for our nation not just once a year, but every day of the year.

The Supreme Court leak has once again exposed the danger of self-governance without personal

morality. Presumably, a single person made the decision to leak this document, a decision to

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