[From the diaries by susanhbu.] Harper’s May Issue (not available on-line) has an excellent story by Chris Hedges called “Feeling the Hate with the National Religious Broadcasters.” In it Hedges quotes Frank Wright, President of the NRB, as telling a convention in Anaheim recently about “a late-night private tour of the Capitol in which he and a group of other pastors stopped and prayed over Hillary Clinton’s Senate floor desk,” and notes the crowd roared its approval.
How dare they! I am so offended for Senator Clinton, whom I believe to be a good woman and a good Senator, and whom I accept as a fellow believer, that my heart aches.
This indignity has got to stop. No one deserves the abusive invasion of having her desk “prayed over” by those who vilify her. …
Who let them in – probably it was Senator Frist who sponsors such tours for a group led by David Barton, a minister who is also vice-president of the Texas Republican Party. See Rev. C. Welton Gaddy’s letter as head of the InterFaith Alliance, to Senator Frist, asking him to stop the tours here:
According to Barton’s website another Tour of the Capitol to be hosted by a member of Congress is scheduled for June 12-13.
This abuse has got to stop. As a lawyer I cannot imagine the indignity of having my desk “prayed over” by people who hate me. As a Christian I cannot imagine doing so to someone and then bragging about it in public. As an American, I am indignant that a place as crucial to our Republic as the very floor of the United States Senate has been desecrated in such a fashion.
