Posted on 07/12/2007 7:08:19 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Three Removed From Senate During Hindu Prayer By Nathan Burchfiel CNSNews.com Staff Writer July 12, 2007
Washington (CNSNews.com) -- Three Christian protestors were removed from the U.S. Senate chamber's observation gallery Thursday when they disrupted the morning prayer -- being delivered for the first time in history by a Hindu chaplain.
The three unidentified protestors began praying loudly when Rajan Zed, a Hindu chaplain from Nevada, started praying. The demonstrators prayed for forgiveness from Jesus Christ for "betraying" the Christian tradition.
Senate security officers quickly removed the demonstrators, and Zed continued with his prayer for peace. "May our study be enlightening," he said, noting that "by devotion to selfless work we gain the supreme goal of life."
Zed addressed his prayer to "the supreme one" and requested that "he stimulate and illuminate our minds."
"May yours spirits be as one," Zed said. "Peace, peace, peace be unto all." He added a prayer of comfort for the family of Lady Bird Johnson, the former First Lady who died Wednesday at 94.
Zed addressed a mainly empty Senate chamber. Among other staff, only Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) were present for the opening invocation and Pledge of Allegiance. Reid's office sponsored Zed's request to serve as a guest chaplain. Inhofe was there to deliver a speech moments later on the Fairness Doctrine.
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Methinks Hindus are not the ones to worry about.
I’ll take a Hindu over a møøselimb any day.
“Zed addressed a mainly empty Senate chamber. Among other staff, only Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) were present for the opening invocation and Pledge of Allegiance. Reid’s office sponsored Zed’s request to serve as a guest chaplain. Inhofe was there to deliver a speech moments later on the Fairness Doctrine.”
Depends on who their friends are. In this case, worry.
FR just lost three members.
Hindus will be great allies in the war against Islamofascists.
Why? I'm really not following what you're saying here?
Methinks Hindus are not the ones to worry about.In India, they are. Muslims and Christians get along rather well there, largely due to the Hindu fanatics.
The protestors were merely showing their bigotry. There are many reasons why America doesn't have a state religion, and people like them are one of the biggest ones.
-Eric
Idiots. Maybe we can just have a state religion.
As far as a Hindu offering a prayer goes, just remember that every day Teddy Kennedy and Chucky Schumer can walk in there and desecrate the Senate chambers to the degree they can be desecrated.
The chaplain is the least of our worries.
Yet another case of freedom of religion for me - but not for thee.
Can't have it both way, either you are for the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and His son Jesus Christ, or you are against him. As a nation, we must choose with whom our full allegiance lies.
Anyone who wishes only peace for me is OK in my book.
If Hinduism works for them, and they leave me alone, I’ll welcome them as neighbors.
Who can say it better than the great George Washington in his letter to the Hebrews?
“Every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and fig tree, and there shall be none to make him afraid. May the father of all mercies scatter light and not darkness in our paths, and make us all in our several vocations useful here, and in his own due time and way everlastingly happy.”
G. Washington, Letter to the Hebrew Congregation
Newport Rhode Island, August 1790.
Amen.
Wow, the Dipshit Trio! I love their work.
Jeez, more people jumping on the ‘oppression’ bandwagon—if the professional protesting class wants to whine about (submit cause of the day here) they should probably do it in a place where they are oppressed, let these three whiners protest the oppression of Christians in a place where it is a little more relevant...
Southern Sudan and Darfur, Red China, Iran, Iraq, Indonesia, Myanmar, Vietnam, Eritrea, Egypt, parts of India, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Kazahkstan, Turkey, Jordan, Belarussia, Cuba, Bangladesh, etc.
Sorry folks, if you are in the States you might be “offended” —but you are probably not “persecuted.”
You obviously aren't familiar with the War On Christmas! (/sarc)
Who was he praying to? The number of Hindu gods number in the millions!
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