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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-13-07 02:23 AM
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VIDEO: Fundy Christians disrupting historic Hindu prayer which opened Senate
Edited on Fri Jul-13-07 02:38 AM by Bluebear
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/07/12/prayer.protest.reut/index.html#cnnSTCVideo



...In the interview, Benham praised the three activists, Ante and Katherine Pavkovic and their daughter Kristen. And he scorned the idea of the Hindu invocation.

"What we have here is just a wonderful example of Christian theology becoming biography in the sacred chamber of the United States Senate, as a Hindu was offering up a prayer to open up the session this morning. And the folks that were there ... waited for the Senate, or a Senator with a backbone, to remind the Hindu that there is one God who made this country great, and his name is Jesus."

The Pavkovics disrupted the ceremony after seeing that no Senator would emerge to challenge the Hindu clergyman's beliefs.

The idea to protest the Hindu's invocation originated in a very organic way, Benham said in the interview. The Pavkovics had come to Washington to protest the proposed hate crimes bill with other activists. When everyone else was headed home, the family found out about the upcoming Hindu presence in the Senate, and realized they could not simply stay silent.

"They thought they needed to go and represent the Lord who made this nation great," Benham said. The event, he said, is emblematic of the modern tendency of "other religions being held on a par with Christianity. Of course, we have said that is not true, that indeed Christianity is one way."


http://electioncentral.tpmcafe.com/blog/electioncentral/2007/jul/12/head_of_christian_right_group_calls_hindu_senate_invocation_gross_idolatry
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poverlay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-13-07 03:25 AM
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1. Crass, ignorant, filthy, hate-mongering, intolerant, gas-filled, evil, pretensious, zealotous,
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Anyone think of any I missed?
To be more direct:

Rude Assholes
I hope they rot in their own personal hells.

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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-13-07 03:41 AM
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3. Cat got your tongue?
RIGHTEOUS RANT!
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poverlay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-13-07 04:15 AM
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4. Thank ye. I fear I may not have made clear my true feelings on the subject... Ah well, people will
just have to guess as best they can...
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conscious evolution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-13-07 06:07 AM
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5. Tell us how you really feel!!
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Hekate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-13-07 03:39 AM
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2. That is the face of unenlightened ignorance for all the world to see. nt
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