Park on Prayer

PRAYER: SENATE’S MORNING PRAYER WAS INTERRUPTED YESTERDAY.

Hindu priest Rajan Zed, the first Hindu asked to lead a Senate prayer, was just getting started yesterday when protestors from a fundamentalist Christian anti-abortion group began shouting “this is an abomination” from the Senate visitor’s gallery. Abomination? The prayer was as inconsequential as any other opening prayer. But why, in light of the First Amendment, is any prayer offered? Maybe the Senate should consider Transcendental Meditation instead.

[Robert Park, What's New, 13 July 2007.]

Posted on July 20, 2007 at 15.19 by jns · Permalink
In: All, Briefly Noted

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  1. Written by S.W. Anderson
    on Saturday, 21 July 2007 at 16.39
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    Those zealots, like the ones who show up to harass those attending military members' funerals, are fanatical sociopaths.

    I suggest they're not about religious faith. They are about exploiting religious faith, using it as a tool to harness power and cause others pain.

    Not unlike Ann Coulter, Michael Savage and others of their kind, except that Coulter and Savage have made their psychopathology pay.

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