Posted on 03/02/2015 7:16:36 PM PST by EveningStar
BOISE – A North Idaho senator is objecting to allowing a Hindu prayer as the opening invocation for the Idaho Senate on Tuesday morning, and says he’ll walk out.
Sen. Steve Vick, R-Dalton Gardens, said, “They have a caste system. They worship cows.” He acknowledged the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution allows any kind of prayer, but said he thinks the Hindu one shouldn’t be allowed to open the Senate, as the United States was “built on the Judeo-Christian not only religion but work ethic, and I don’t want to see that undermined.”
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I don’t object to prayer from any religion.
Lead on, Senator Vick.
I don’t do what the Hindu
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Hey stupid Vick (another Vick, oh no). While the Hindus worship cows, the Democrats have a Jackass as their symbol. I’ll take Hindus, for $1,000.
Why should he?
What this country needs is to return to our roots, not lift up another culture in the name of multi-culturalism and, by doing so, further burying our heritage.
““They have a caste system. They worship cows.”
Anyone been to India? They allow monkeys, cows, rats running in clear traffic and they venerate them. Some sacred crap from what I;ve been told. Don’t get me started with the damn elephants..
“I don’t object to prayer from any religion.”
The muzzies had their prayer before they beheaded the Japanese hostages.
The USA is a melting pot, not a bastion of multi-culturalism. Why shouldn’t Hindus be welcome here? Are they trying to destroy our country?
Not necessarily.
They are, however, being used as a tool by the Left to destroy our country.
He is acting like an Islamist, who are always intolerant of all other religions even if they are peaceful and tolerant.
B.S. I am as Hindu as they come, and I am as pro-America as they come. I worked my rear end off to prosper, and in the process benefited my employers and my colleagues. I excel at golf, love American football (how about our Seahawks!) and have voted for every republican since 1972.
That doesn’t change the fact that this is a country founded on Judeo Christian principles, and those principles are being undermined by the Left.
Using other religions to displace Christianity is simply one of their tools
The US constitution has no such proclamation about Judeo-Christian exclusivity. Actually it is just the reverse. The constitution expressly forbids a national religion. The only countries in this world which proclaim a nationally dominant religion are Muslim countries and they expressly give preference to Muslims. Please do not tell me you want to follow that route.
I wishhe hadn’t made the comment about Hindus worshipping cows (because they don’t), but the caste system is a de facto discrimination system and therefore at odds with the opening line of the Dec. of Independence.
It didn’t state it in the Constitution because it was pretty well universally understood that the nation was Judeo-Christian (much as it would’ve been patently ludicrous to have to declare that marriage was between a man and a woman). No doubt had the Founding Fathers known that attempts to undermine such notions 200 years hence would’ve resulted in it being made plain.
What most people don’t understand is that the Constitution did not wish to have an official national religion, but not as in Christianity, but as in specific sects of Christianity (which they left explicitly to the states, many of which declared official state Christian religious sects). They did not want to follow the route of European monarchies where the President would serve as a head of the church. That’s the true and sole definition of the abused declaration of so-called “separation” (which has been willfully misinterpreted by the Supreme Court and other entities for far too long).
In any event, I can see being tolerant enough to permit a Hindu prayer at this opening session. I don’t believe they’re seeking to overthrow the country or the Constitution as a certain other group is attempting every day of the week (and indeed, Hindus are just as imperiled by the Mohammadans reign of terror as every other religious sect, so even if we as Christians don’t agree on dogma/doctrine, et al, they’re still brothers and sisters in arms against evil).
No one is asking the Senator to accept or subscribe to said prayers, but I think he’s making too big a deal of it. If he finds it violates his principles, he can either sit quietly or stand outside the chamber. He’s acting more like the atheists with school prayers: because one person objects, rather than quietly not participate, he tries to shut the whole thing down.
Right on! There is absolutely no question the country was founded on Judeo-Christian principles. And that has served the nation well. However both those religions do not proscribe intolerance of other peaceful religions.
The real cause which will degrade this great country is expansion of socialism. Socialism & communism are cousins and they have degraded every country where tried. Even formerly hard communist country of China now has allowed formation of one million new millionaires. And in the process all boats are being lifted. To be sure it is still has an autocratic regime, but my pen pals are doing much better than 20 years ago.
Obama OTOH is moving us in the opposite direction. Creating more dependents and killing the incentives for innovation and risk taking is a sure path to poverty, despair and less freedom.
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