Zed leads Senate morning prayer

Posted July 13th, 2007 at 05:39 PM by xian

From the one-man news and entertainment service, Angry Asian Man

hindu prayer makes history... and controversy

A Hindu clergyman, Rajan Zed, made history on Thursday by offering the Senate's morning prayer—the very first Hindu to offer the prayer that opens each day's Senate session. First, however, he had to endure the shouts of protestors in the visitors' gallery, who were removed by police: Senate Prayer Led by Hindu Elicits Protest. Two women and a man, who were shouting idiotic stuff like "this is an abomination," were arrested and charged with disrupting Congress, a misdemeanor. For several days, the Mississippi-based American Family Association has apparently been urging its members to object to the prayer because Zed, who was born India, would be "seeking the invocation of a non-monotheistic god." Suckas. You can see video of Zed's prayer (and hear the protestor's shouts) here.

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Glock21's picture
On July 13th, 2007 at 06:12 PM, Glock21 said:

 Heard about this earlier on the IRC channel... usual crap about "christian nation" blah blah blah.  So far it doesn't look like any lightning bolts struck the capitol building so apparently we're still okay.  Here's Bob with the weather:  Thanks, Glock... warm tomorrow, partly cloudy with 20% chance of DELUGE!  :-)

 

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Glock21 Op/Ed

On July 13th, 2007 at 07:54 PM, Anonymous (not verified) said:

Glock,

God promised in the Bible that he would never again flood the earth. Now, fire....

On July 13th, 2007 at 08:30 PM, Anonymous (not verified) said:

Indian? Save the Chief!

Fools come in many stripes, but most of them are white on white. And conservative Republican.

the Artichoke's picture
On July 13th, 2007 at 09:02 PM, the Artichoke said:

AS Gandhi said: I have a ot of respect for the teachings of Christ, but Christians scare me.

On July 13th, 2007 at 09:03 PM, ILvoter. (not verified) said:

Nice racist comment, Anonymous.  Nothing like confronting bigotry with more bigotry!

the Artichoke's picture
On July 13th, 2007 at 09:04 PM, the Artichoke said:

Thank you, ILvoter

On July 13th, 2007 at 09:17 PM, Anonymous (not verified) said:

"Fools come in many stripes, but most of them are white on white. And conservative Republican."

Wait a minute, I thought The White Stripes was some kind of rock group.  I never knew they were conservative Republicans.  Maybe I'll have to download some of their songs.  Thanks for the tip!

On July 13th, 2007 at 11:59 PM, xian said:

Well, logic would say that there are less white fools than other of the "races" which fools conceived to carve up the world's population--after all, we are talking about a smaller population, and fools are pretty equally distributed...