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The prayer is for the people about to embark on their duties as legislators. How hard is that to understand?
I ask because my parents have been chaplains before at school board meetings. The guidelines for their prayers included things like: not allowed to invoke one specific God or gods, praying for the members of the community, etc. so if guidelines are similar I don’t see why they’d bar chaplains other than Christian.
I ask because my parents have been chaplains before at school board meetings. The guidelines for their prayers included things like: not allowed to invoke one specific God or gods, praying for the members of the community, etc. so if guidelines are similar I don’t see why they’d bar chaplains other than Christian.
Are there members of many religions on the school board or that attend meetings?
They did not bar other religions, they said the person leading the prayer had to be from the legislator's church. If a person with a different religion is elected they can have someone from their church lead the prayer. Why is this such a big deal?
I will add maybe it would be better if the legislators were able to invite the various religious leaders from their district a different times to do an invocation.
Yup. He's the MSNBC dunce who, along with Melissa Harris Perry, made an issue of the fact that Mitt Romney and his wife had adopted a black child. That's exactly who should be lecturing people about "diversity." Keep choosing those great role models, liberals.
So, in Israel and Saudi Arabia, they have Christian prayers in government?
Funny you bring this up. I think Oklahoma is an excellent example of what the fundamentalist Christian counterpart to the Muslim world is, hence why I call it "Baptistan".
Seriously though, I don't want Muslim prayers in the government either. We are supposed to have separation of church and state (or mosque and state) in this country.
A few people have to move to Oklahoma, because they can't believe how vastly stupid the legislators and laws are. So they have to come see to believe it. Several decades ago if you were drinking on a plane, a stewardess might have to come up to you and grab your drink. If you asked, "Why the hell did you do that for?" The stewardess would say, "We're about to enter dry air space--Oklahoma!" That's an actual true story over why one man decided he had to move to Oklahoma.
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He's the MSNBC dunce who, along with Melissa Harris Perry, made an issue of the fact that Mitt Romney and his wife had adopted a black child. That's exactly who should be lecturing people about "diversity." Keep choosing those great role models, liberals.
