Behind William Donohue’s bluster and outrage there lurks a simple truth: The man does not like people who don’t believe in God, and he’s no fan of secular government.

Those of us who advocate for separation of church and state won’t miss the National Day of Prayer because we argue that government, as a secular entity, has no business meddling in the religious lives of its citizens.

In a 1995 essay, William Barr asserted, “Traditional Judeo-Christian doctrine maintains that there is a transcendent moral order with objective standards of right and wrong that exists independent of man’s will. This transcendent order flows from God’s eternal law – the divine will by which the whole of creation is ordered.”