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On edit: added this second video that has some background on the Christians who interrupted...
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951-Riverside
(7,234 posts)Enough with the pointless prayers before government meetings, kick them all out and get on with the people's business.
but since he was invited to speak (and they are) this was totally disrespectful to the speaker. They should be treated as they treat any other disruption. Clear them from the room.
951-Riverside
(7,234 posts)What they did was vile and disgusting!
I'd like to know who those goons were. They shouldnt enjoy any anonymity.
Mika
(17,751 posts)Glorfindel
(9,730 posts)Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)my last nerve. Secondly, the founders were often very much not Christian acolytes. This is Christian revisionism, plain and simple. The founders were largely secularists and deists. Our founders sought freedom from religion as much as the sought freedom of religion. Religion was to be kept separate from the state. Where do these uneducated boobs get off?
Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)memorizing and reciting scripture, and begging for mercy, they might actually accomplish something more useful than guarding their omnipotent god against the utterances of the small, meek Indian man.
RainDog
(28,784 posts)Thanks for posting this - I wondered who did it when it happened.
Sometimes I'm reminded of the phrase, "I love humanity. It's people I can't stand." LOL.
drynberg
(1,648 posts)Released showing their congressional district...y'know a little consequence, no?
joshcryer
(62,276 posts)We're talking the United States Senate here, the highest legislative body in the land.
surrealAmerican
(11,361 posts)If so, which ones?
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)Three protestors calling themselves patriots disrupted a Hindu prayer that was set to open up the Senate this past Thursday.
The invocation which made history as the first Hindu-led prayer was led by Rajan Zed, a Hindu chaplain from Nevada, but was interrupted by two women and one man from the group Operation Save America/Operation Rescue.
AnneD
(15,774 posts)how embarrassing.
byronius
(7,395 posts)Makes them look like complete bumpkins. Pathetic. Un-Christian. Un-American.
Arkansas Granny
(31,518 posts)Just a bunch of close minded bigots hiding behind a façade of Christian love.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)HGTV was right to fire those thugs.
Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)I'm an atheist, and have very little regard for either of those in the video beliefs, but common decency would inform me to keep my fucking mouth shut while my guest was speaking. So, go to hell xtian soldiers in the vid.
wandy
(3,539 posts)One of the sanest things about the separation of church and state is that unlike some other parts of the world the various cults haven't been killing each other in the streets.
Yet.
Vietnameravet
(1,085 posts)Incredibly stupid, ignorant and fearful people...the kind that spread hate and think God loves them!!
joshcryer
(62,276 posts)That would've been absolutely insane and would've made a complete disgrace of the Senate.