[Delphinium]

What a time for Jews to start making trouble with Christians. We need to stick together.

[graycamel]

what whiners!

[lsee]

John 14:6 Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."

[Bella_Bru]

Just a question, but why couldn't the prayer just have included G-d? Jews and Christians both worship the G-d of Abraham, why wasn't that enough?

[sinkspur]

Frankly, this is petty. On the part of everybody involved. There's no reason to be in anybody's face about one's religion.

The evangelical pastor should have sucked it up, and been satisfied to pray to God.

Won't He do?

[Nachum]

What an embarassment. Who the heck cares? We are fighting for our lives and these idiots are having a pissing contest.

I volunteer to throw a knish at each of them.

[yonif]

I agree with the Jewish people there. They should have removed references to Jesus.

[Nachum]

What an embarassment. Who the heck cares? We are fighting for our lives and these idiots are having a pissing contest.

I volunteer to throw a knish at each of them.

[Nachum]

What an embarassment. Who the heck cares? We are fighting for our lives and these idiots are having a pissing contest.

I volunteer to throw a knish at each of them.

[DoughtyOne]

Let them walk. I have a hunch they'll back. This is a Christian nation, but I do not think they should be forced to listen. They can leave during the prayer.

[Illbay]

This wasn't appropriate. It is not necessary to pray a "Christian-specific" prayer in an ecumenical setting.

This is entirely the clergyman's fault and he owes an apology.

[StockAyatollah]

Leftist jews like this are the root cause of most anti-semitism in this country. Maybe we shouldn't even bring up God, since that might offend the wiccans and satan worshippers.

[RJCogburn]

The minister is a jerk.
The 'lawmakers' are foolish.

[Hoppean]

Why should Christians feel compelled hide their faith for the sake of bending over backwards for 3 percent of the U.S. population?

[Rippin]

I've never seen a Freerepublic thread where everyone was wrong before. The answer is teh Jews have someone pray the Jewish way, the Christians have someone pray the Christian way and the liberals have someone stand up and go on and on about peace on earth and we all have to listen to each other. That's pluralism. Censoring someone's prayer is NOT ACCEPTABLE!

[sauropod]

Oh yeah. Big Mike (Michael Steele is an uncle tom) Miller.

[yonif]

Ping.

[stayathomemom]

"Miller appealed to lawmakers for tolerance and urged they stick to guidelines that call for invocations to be of an ecumenical nature and respectful of all faiths."

So, they are demanding that Christians not pray. Without Christ, the prayer goes nowhere. Now, you can yell at me, but that is my belief. Perhaps the invocations should be dropped entirely.

[yonif]

Ping. Jewish faith debate here.

[mc10]

this nation, of course, was founded on Christianity. This is a terrible, terrible shame!