Re: [xmca] opening prayer for Texas curriculum deliberations

[Tony Whitson <twhitson@UDel.Edu>]

I was listening to the feed while she delivered this "invocation," and I 
was shocked. It was not even in the form of an invocation -- with all the 
"I believe this"s and "I believe that"s. Turns out, it's from a 1954 
Prayer Breakfast speech by Earl Warren. (See
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,936197,00.html   . )

This was not a prayer, but a political stunt in the form of prayer. Mrs. 
Dunbar pressed God into her service as a tool for her political chicanery. 
> From a Judeo-Christian POV, This is a form of blasphemy.

On Mon, 24 May 2010, Peter Smagorinsky wrote:

> http://blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2010/05/24/the-abuse-of-heavenly-prayer-for-earth-bound-politics/?cxntfid=blogs_jay_bookman_blog
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Tony Whitson
UD School of Education
NEWARK  DE  19716

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