Posted on 12/10/2014 6:50:49 AM PST by Heartlander
Like many cities, Lake Worth opens its commission meetings with an invocation, usually given by clergy who sometimes pray in Jesus' name. Last week, an atheist named Preston Smith was allowed to give the invocation.
Before he opened his mouth, four of five commissioners -- including Mayor Pam Triolo -- walked out of the room. - click here to watch via YouTube .
Triolo has told WPTV-Ch. 5 that she walked out before Smith's invocation because of an allegedly offensive Twitter comment he posted in July.
"I didn't leave because he's an atheist, I left because of his alleged Tweet," Triolo told WPTV.
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Good for them. When that athiest is on bent knee later he will understand why they left the room.
He claims it was a violation of the beliefs that he doesn’t have.
An atheist invocation? To whom? Himself? Nothingness?
If he “invoked” the aid or guidance of anything, that would imply belief in something, wouldn’t it?
When is a Tweet not a Tweet but only an "alleged Tweet"?
To cover the old saw, “Someone hacked my account.”
Their faith must be pretty weak if they can’t just shrug off a few minutes of some atheist saying whatever an “atheist invocation” might be.
Atheist are free to do the same when faced with a religious prayer......I don’t see what the atheist hope to achieve other than trying to antagonize believers. His so called prayer was reticules in that it sought to do nothing more than discredit other religions!!
Why is everything “alleged”? Either he did post on Twitter or he didn’t. No “alleged”. And why is “alleged” used AFTER a person is convicted?
Really, check with the queers to see how it works.
Did you also notice this asshat didn’t bother with the Pledge of Allegience either. What a drama queen.
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