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I would not, however, condone equal access, or even being respectful of, non-Judeo Christian prayer in our places of justice and law-making.

If we do not grant Hindus and Bhuddist and Muslims prayers in our senate chambers, then neither should we allow Christian or Jewish prayers in that Chamber. Congress is prohibited from creating a state religion and if we only allow Christian prayers in the Senate Chamber, then Congress will have established a religion in clear violation of the first amendment.

Further the Constitution provides that there shall be no religious test for public office. Thus the religious liberty of all Americans must be protected and if access to the halls of congress is granted to Christians, it must also be granted to every other faith that is represented in Congress. As it stands right now, at least one state was stupid enough to send a Muslim to be their representative and thus, it would be a violation of the constitution to prohibit his religion from having a voice that is granted to other religions.

Religious liberty is a road with many forks. We must be free to take any one of them and we must not be afraid to let others choose their own paths.

The very first Supreme Court Justice John Jay said

"Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers."

True that there is no religious test for office or state established religion ... there was, however, a degree of common sense that pervaded that era of American history that is lost to us today. Our founders understood duties and privileges far better than we do. I'm not afraid of which path another's religious freedom takes him -- I'm afraid of allowing him to drag our nation (by the nose hairs of government office) down his path against our founders' better common sense.