History was made on Thursday, July 12th when a Hindu priest delivered the opening prayer at the U.S. Senate for the first time ever. Mr. Rajan Zed, a journalist and Hindu priest, delivered a minute and a half prayer in which he offered God thanks and prayed for peace.
However, before Mr. Zed could offer his short prayer to God, threeChristian activists disrupted the ceremony with angry shouts and denunciations of Hinduism to the shock of on-lookers. "This is an
abomination!" the Washington Post reports one of the disruptors as screaming. "We are Christians and patriots!" yelled another before being led away by police.
Shockingly, far from being an isolated and spontaneous incident of hatred, it is reported that a large number of well-organized fundamentalist Christian groups throughout the nation had been
clamoring against allowing a Hindu priest to lead a prayer in our nation's capital. The American Family Association has been on the forefront of urging
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