Obama’s Faith Questioned by MN State Legislature Chaplain, Sparks Outrage
ABC News' Devin Dwyer reports: Congress and state legislatures across the country routinely begin their daily sessions with an apolitical, non-denominational prayer. But in the Minnesota House on Friday, the prayer touched a nerve.
Bradlee Dean, an evangelical Christian leader invited by Republicans to be a guest chaplain, ended his prayer on the chamber floor with a shot at President Obama.
"It's not about the Baptists, not about the Catholics alone, or the Lutherans, or the Evangelicals, or any other denomination, but rather the head of the denomination, and his name is Jesus, as every president up until 2008 has acknowledged," Dean said. "And we pray it in Jesus' name."
Those words, Dean's exclusion of Jews and other non-Christians from the prayer, and his record as an anti-gay activist who has suggested homosexuals be executed, triggered bipartisan outrage.
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