Okay. Is it wrong to ask anyone to pray for one? How do we "parse" this one out?
Nowhere in Scripture are we instructed to pray to people who have died. That is the objection. We ask friends and family and pastors and such to pray for us. But Mad Dawg, I would dare say that Catholics pray to Mary more than they pray to the Lord. And you know well that some have taken Marian devotion to the point of worship. Not some, a lot. We simply see nothing like what Marian devotion has become in the Bible or the very early church.