No Lord, but Jesus: Protesters Voice at Hindu prayer in US Senate
Washington, SVM News, July 13, 2007: Christian religious activists briefly disrupted the Hindu prayer in the US Senate on Thursday, the 13th of July, branding his appearance an "abomination."
Invited by the Senate to offer Hindu prayers in place of the usual Christian invocation, Rajan Zed, a Hindu priest and also the director of Interfaith Relations at a Hindu temple in Reno, Nevada, had just stepped up to the podium for the landmark occasion, the protesters interrupted by loudly asking for God's forgiveness for allowing the ''false prayer'' of a Hindu in the Senate chamber.
"Lord Jesus, forgive us father for allowing a prayer of the wicked, which is an abomination in your sight," the first protester shouted. "This is an abomination. We shall have no other gods before you."
Democratic Senator Bob Casey, who was serving as the presiding officer for the morning, immediately asked the sergeant-at-arms to restore order. But they continued to protest as they were headed out the door by the marshals, shouting, "No Lord but Jesus Christ!" and "There's only one true God!"
Police officers quickly arrested them and charged them with disrupting Congress, a misdemeanor. The male protester told an Associated Press reporter, "we are Christians and patriots" before police handcuffed them and led them away.
"We identified the protesters as three and they are Ante Nedlko Pavkovic, Katherine Lynn Pavkovic and Christan Renee Sugar," officials said to the Salem Voice Ministries (SVM) News Service. "It seems they represent the Christian Right anti-abortion group named Operation Save America," official added to the SVM News.
The Mississippi-based American Family Association has been urging its members for several days to object to the prayer because Zed would be "seeking the invocation of a non-monotheistic god."
Rajan Zed, clad in saffron with a prominent tilak on his forehead, then nervously went through the invocation. "Let us pray," he began, "We meditate on the transcendental glory of the deity supreme, who is inside the heart of the earth, inside the life of the sky and inside the soul of heaven. May he stimulate and illuminate our minds."
He was invited by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to give the day's opening prayer.
Washington, SVM News, July 13, 2007: Christian religious activists briefly disrupted the Hindu prayer in the US Senate on Thursday, the 13th of July, branding his appearance an "abomination."
Invited by the Senate to offer Hindu prayers in place of the usual Christian invocation, Rajan Zed, a Hindu priest and also the director of Interfaith Relations at a Hindu temple in Reno, Nevada, had just stepped up to the podium for the landmark occasion, the protesters interrupted by loudly asking for God's forgiveness for allowing the ''false prayer'' of a Hindu in the Senate chamber.
"Lord Jesus, forgive us father for allowing a prayer of the wicked, which is an abomination in your sight," the first protester shouted. "This is an abomination. We shall have no other gods before you."
Democratic Senator Bob Casey, who was serving as the presiding officer for the morning, immediately asked the sergeant-at-arms to restore order. But they continued to protest as they were headed out the door by the marshals, shouting, "No Lord but Jesus Christ!" and "There's only one true God!"
Police officers quickly arrested them and charged them with disrupting Congress, a misdemeanor. The male protester told an Associated Press reporter, "we are Christians and patriots" before police handcuffed them and led them away.
"We identified the protesters as three and they are Ante Nedlko Pavkovic, Katherine Lynn Pavkovic and Christan Renee Sugar," officials said to the Salem Voice Ministries (SVM) News Service. "It seems they represent the Christian Right anti-abortion group named Operation Save America," official added to the SVM News.
The Mississippi-based American Family Association has been urging its members for several days to object to the prayer because Zed would be "seeking the invocation of a non-monotheistic god."
Rajan Zed, clad in saffron with a prominent tilak on his forehead, then nervously went through the invocation. "Let us pray," he began, "We meditate on the transcendental glory of the deity supreme, who is inside the heart of the earth, inside the life of the sky and inside the soul of heaven. May he stimulate and illuminate our minds."
He was invited by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to give the day's opening prayer.
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