[editor-surveyor]

"Exactly what was lost?"

What was lost was the dignity of the Unoted States of America, due to sanctioning of pagan prayer in the house of the President of the United States, a distinctly Christian Nation.

I voted for Bush, and I have supported him in his activities up to now. - I can no longer do so; he stands in overt defiance of the Lord and his Holy word.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Pagan (in the sense of non Christian or generalist) prayers have gone on in United States government facilities for years; in fact since before the Declaration of Independence. Look up Thomas Jefferson's philosophies, for example. Or Benjamin Franklin's. Old Theist Ben Franklin proposed the idea for the constitutional convention to meet and pray! Which they did, in various churches, whereupon the disagreements rapidly resolved.

The US has NEVER been "pure Christian."

I wish Bush would have not hosted this meeting, because of the precedent, but it hardly is "spoiling an unspotted record of a Christian Nation." We never had that unspotted record to begin with.