Apparently Washington State voters got angry and forced those two assholes to go back in and listen to a Muslim prayer the second time. I think Hesiod has the story.

It's been mentioned in several blogs, including my own (since I'm a Muslim living in the Seattle area). What's really sad about this is that the Muslim cleric was praying for the success of the legislature and of America. I mean, it was an explicitly patriotic prayer. As far as I can tell, McMahan's only grounds for saying her walk-out was "patriotic" is that she thinks that Islam itself is bad or that all Muslims are bad, even when their words or actions demonstrate the contrary.

Yet I am quite serious that the Christian legislators have the right to find Islam or Judaism or any other religious prayer repugnant.

There are real differences in theology between faiths and to assume that they are all "basically the same" so their prayer are easily substituted for each other is itself a form of theology that many people disagree with.

Just removing prayer from public events is the best solution all around.

Absolutely, there is no justification for forcing legislators to listen to any prayer at all: separation of powers, anyone? But if you're going to listen to some prayers, as an elected official, it gets a lot tougher to publicly walk out on others. And then make inflammatory comments about why you're doing it.
Private citizens can walk out on anything they want to, of course.

Oh hey - thanks for mentioning "In God we trust" on the money. I think that was added around the 1930s. along with the Masonic symbols (pyramid, eye, etc.). It gets left out of the debate.
For coin collectors, there's a famous series, "In gold we trust", I think on the silver dollar? Someone got fired at the Mint for that joke.

John has expressed better than I did what I was trying to say. I think that there's a very good argument to be made for not having prayer in situations like this. But I find it unfortunate that the impetus may be the bigoted actions of some people.

Of course, Christian prayers to Jesus (peace be upon him) may be quite theologically offensive to non-Christians.

Public prayer - Christian or otherwise - by government bodies is often offensive to some Christians. Even in the days when I used to teach Sunday school and sing in the church choir, I found it offensive. Jesus was against that sort of thing, remember.

As an American, I don't want anyone, of any religion, feeling that they are compelled to express my spiritual beliefs, let alone anyone else's. And if trying to use the idea of public prayer to create respect for diversity of faiths is an excuse to expose private beliefs to public bigotry, that just underscores the necessity to keep it the hell out of government.

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