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.






An election for President and Commander in Chief of the Military must strive to be above reproach. Our public institutions must give the public confidence that a presidential candidate has complied with the election process that is prescribed by our Constitution and laws. It is only after a presidential candidate satisfies the rules of such a process that he/she can expect members of the public, regardless of their party affiliations, to give him/her the respect that the Office of President so much deserves.
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