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 More than 6,000 people are expected to attend a Memorial Day ceremony at Houston National Cemetery.
May 27th, 2011
01:47 PM ET
Judge blocks Veteran Affairs from barring 'Jesus Christ' prayerA federal judge in Texas has told the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs that it cannot censor a pastor's invocation at a Memorial Day ceremony. The VA had ordered the Rev. Scott Rainey to remove a phrase using Jesus Christ from the prayer, arguing the line excluded other beliefs held by veterans, KHOU-TV in Houston reported. On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Lynn Hughes disagreed, writing the government cannot "gag citizens when it says it is in the interest of national security, and it cannot do it in some bureaucrat's notion of cultural homogeneity," according to a report in the Houston Chronicle. Read the full story about the judge's prayer ruling on CNN's This Just In blog.
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Are related to Nicole Kidman?, 'cause that would be, like, awesome!
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Christians started the civil rights movement
They started the slavery movement, too. The sanction of slavery in the Bible was the foundation of the last 500 years of misery for African Americans. So I guess Christianity was just cleaning up a mess of its own making.
Hey, the Bible advocates selling your daughter into slavery.
Oh goody. Can we have an invocation by a minister of the Order of Nine Angels so as to be fair to everyone and by the way make sure the Imam, the Rabbi, and any other deluded wack job gets their opportunity too, otherwise lawsuits will be pending.
Oh, and the Wiccans! Let us not forget the Wiccans. They should have been a part of the prayer, too. I don't mind if they mention Jesus, as long as they mention all the others in the same message.
I wonder if this would apply to Anwar al-Alwlaki, and American born citizen. Obama wants to kill him just for speaking...I guess only Christians can speak their mind and say their prayers without being killed.
I am glad that the censor was lifted. Everyone is trying to wipe Jesus Christ off. Other religions can pray, march, protest and preach when they don't believe in God or Jesus, but the ones that do believe can't.
Nobody is trying to "wipe Jesus off." We are just trying to get Christians to accept that not everybody believes as you believe. A little respect, ya' know?
hALLELUYAH–Yahusha lives!
Yahooooooo-sha
May the name of Jesus Christ lifted up in America, for He is the Lord of everyone including the Jews.
and he wants to torture you forever if you have so much as a whiff of doubt about his existence or do any minor finite transgression. what an azzhole.
He's a HELLAVA guy!
That should have been : @Forham Jock. 😳