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In reply to the discussion: Inauguration: What's with all the praying? [View all]ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)2. If this is all you have to worry about today...well then...
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One contemporary and popular interpretation is that the passage instructs...
LanternWaste
Jan 2013
#13
I doubt that the secret service, police, security guys were praying and had their eyes closed.
Tx4obama
Jan 2013
#24
They were being paid to protect the President, set up the chairs, run the sound, etc.
Bake
Jan 2013
#35
Highly annoying ... Gotta pay homage to the invisible, non-existent dude in the sky.
Arugula Latte
Jan 2013
#10
And that is someplace I DO object to them. Because it is a government function.
kestrel91316
Jan 2013
#33
Where in the Constitution does it forbid a benediction at the inauguration or mandate that it be on
kestrel91316
Jan 2013
#31
The "Welcome to America" Wagon is on its way (the other threads on this didn't suffice for you?).
WinkyDink
Jan 2013
#29
Nothing that hasn't happened in every presidential inauguration since Washington's.
kestrel91316
Jan 2013
#30