He is praying as his Bible tells him to, and if anyone has a problem with that, then it is their problem, not his. Exactly.. Why not just get the janitor to say a few words if you don't desire all this religious entanglement? After all, they expect to reduce a prayer to the level of a speech.. At that point, what's it matter who mouths the words?
True words.
I guess the idea is for the State to "establish" a "faith-neutral" religion that every would-be chaplain must subscribe to. To be faithful to one's own religion is now considered "irritating" and "establishing your religion".
You would think with all this diversity garbage being tossed around people would be appreciative of the fact that anyone would pray for them or bless them in the name of whatever deity they happened to believe in and take the intent for what it's worth. Instead, you have to be forced to strip yourself of your distinctive worship to fit into the pantheon of acceptable gods.
Ten will get you twenty that if he was a Native American praying for the Great Spirit to rest on the assembly, it would have been hailed as a "breakthrough" in inter-faith, intercultural relations.
-cb
Completely accurate, and shamefully so.