Thursday, July 12, 2007

This just shows how fucked up "born again" Christians are....

Totally not figuring out what TOLERANCE means, three Christian activist audience members were arrested Thursday after staging a noisy protest as a Hindu chaplain read the opening prayer at the US Senate, branding his appearance an "abomination."
They were ejected from the chamber and charged with an unlawful disruption of Congress.

As Hindu chaplain Rajan Zed started to recite his prayer, one protestor was heard chanting "Lord Jesus, forgive us father for allowing a prayer which is an abomination in your sight. "You are the one, true living God."

It has been a Congress tradition to bring in Faith leaders from various belief systems to give the Senate's daily opening prayer, though it is normally offered by the Congress's Christian (sometimes Jewish) chaplain.

An article on the Internet quotes a group calling itself "Americans United for Separation of Church and State" as condemning the protest. According to a dispatch from AFP, "This shows the intolerance of many Religious Right activists," said the group's executive director, Reverend Barry Lynn. "They say they want more religion in the public square, but it's clear they mean only their religion." The conservative American Family Association had been campaigning against the use of a Hindu prayer in the chamber, asking members to send emails and letters to Senators in protest.

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