Zeal For Truth

Thursday, Rajan Zed said the United States Senate’s morning prayer. The Senate has had a long tradition of having a prayer before meeting, but this prayer is newsworthy for two reasons. It was the first Hindu prayer in Senate history, and a protest of the prayer by a few Christians present in the galley has not gone over well with many people.

Here’s a video of the prayer and protest:

I’ve thought for a while that this sort of event is the logical end of Christian attempts to keep or reintroduce religious practices in government and in the schools. The allowance of only Christian (or on occasion other “acceptable” faiths) prayers in the public forum is untenable in a pluralistic democracy. Are Christians willing to accept that if they get the right to have prayer in schools and before government meetings that other faiths will also have that right?