Hindu Prayer Interrupted In Senate By Christians

[Teh One Who Knocks]

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Christian activists briefly disrupted a Hindu invocation in the U.S Senate on Thursday, marring a historic first for the chamber and showing that fundamentalism is present and shouting in the U.S too.

Invited by the Senate to offer Hindu prayers in place of the usual Christian invocation, Rajan Zed, a Hindu priest from Reno, Nevada, had just stepped up to the podium for the landmark occasion when three protesters, said to belong to the Christian Right anti-abortion group Operation Save America, interrupted him by loudly asking for God's forgiveness for allowing the ''false prayer'' of a Hindu in the Senate chamber.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1onHSr58es

[Goofy]

Wow, people arguing about religion........ whatever next!

[PorkChopSandwiches]

:roll:

[JoeyB]

Douchebags. His prayers cannot hurt you, or others.

[KevinD]

Douchebags. His prayers cannot hurt you, or others.

My initial thought is "Who cares if they have a Hindu service?" Second.hmm, well, at least he spoke the service in English. I WOULD have a problem with a prayer service in a foreign language.

[JoeyB]

My initial thought is "Who cares if they have a Hindu service?" Second.hmm, well, at least he spoke the service in English. I WOULD have a problem with a prayer service in a foreign language.

It's just words, and technically, you cannot define anything as a foreign language when you do not have an official national language. You may know how I feel about language as unifying device, so I do actually support English as a legal national standard; but considering it's often a rallying point seen with hate groups, it's hard to publicly support such an issue without people assuming you are also a racist.

[Hal-9000]

In the spirit of peace, we should have threatened to cut some heads off too :)

[Muddy]

How about we ban all religion in govt. and just be done with it?

[Hal-9000]

Yeah the senate opening with a prayer is a little weird TBH

[JoeyB]

Yeah the senate opening with a prayer is a little weird TBH

Not here it isn't.

[Muddy]

I think it's weird also..