Hindu Prayer in Senate
Posted by Vaibhav Patle on July 19, 2007
A Hindu clergyman made history Thursday by offering the Senate’s morning prayer, but only after police officers removed three shouting protesters from the visitors’ gallery.
Rajan Zed, director of interfaith relations at a Hindu temple in Reno, Nev., gave the brief prayer that opens each day’s Senate session. As he stood at the chamber’s podium in a bright orange and burgundy robe, two women and a man began shouting ”this is an abomination” and other complaints from the gallery. [NYT]
They shouted “No Lord but Jesus Christ” and “There’s only one true God,” and used the term “abomination.”
