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An array of religious leaders, many of them from Nevada, are calling for Sen. Sheryl Nuxoll, R-Cottonwood, to apologize for her comments this week that Hinduism “is a false faith with false gods.” Nuxoll made the comments to the news media after she, along with two other senators, boycotted a Hindu prayer that opened a morning session of the Idaho Senate. Today, she stood by her remarks and refused to apologize, though she said she didn’t mean to say Hinduism was “false religion,” just that it’s based on “false gods.”

Nuxoll said. “I felt I had to abstain, because I’m not going to be praying to false gods. I’m a believer like Mother Teresa that everybody should be the best they can.” She said she encourages Rajan Zed, the Hindu cleric who gave the Idaho Senate invocation, to “be the best Hindu that he can for his faith and beliefs,” and said, “He can say a prayer anywhere he wants in the Capitol,” but said, “I’m in a floor session bound to follow the Constitution. … It is a Christian nation based on Christian principles. To start out our day, we usually say a Christian prayer. I would’ve been fine if we had also had a Christian prayer.” Nuxoll said she believes the Constitution is “based on Judeo-Christian principles.”

“Prayer isn’t a show,” she said. “Prayer is a relationship with God – that’s what prayer is. So how can I join in a prayer where it’s a false god?”

Pwns wrote:I was expecting a dingbat woman politician to be a bit hotter. I feel let down.

Chizzang wrote:

Pwns wrote:I was expecting a dingbat woman politician to be a bit hotter. I feel let down.

Turns out she's ugly on the inside too...

travelinman67 wrote:Flip this 180°...a Hindu refusing to participate in a Christian prayer...

...and the chorus of haters would be castigating Christians for being insensitive and forcing religion on others.

A chaplain who once ministered to Navy SEALs could be thrown out of the military after he was accused of failing “to show tolerance and respect” in private counseling sessions in regards to issues pertaining to faith, marriage and sexuality, specifically homosexuality and pre-marital sex, according to documents obtained exclusively by Fox News.

travelinman67 wrote:No sooner said, than...

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/03/ ... n-beliefs/

A chaplain who once ministered to Navy SEALs could be thrown out of the military after he was accused of failing “to show tolerance and respect” in private counseling sessions in regards to issues pertaining to faith, marriage and sexuality, specifically homosexuality and pre-marital sex, according to documents obtained exclusively by Fox News.

kalm wrote:The amount of stupid here is 57% of Republicans favor making Christianity the official religion of the U.S., but yeah…the christian right has no influence over the party.

JSO, when Texas and Louisiana secede, please take Idaho with you.

An array of religious leaders, many of them from Nevada, are calling for Sen. Sheryl Nuxoll, R-Cottonwood, to apologize for her comments this week that Hinduism “is a false faith with false gods.” Nuxoll made the comments to the news media after she, along with two other senators, boycotted a Hindu prayer that opened a morning session of the Idaho Senate. Today, she stood by her remarks and refused to apologize, though she said she didn’t mean to say Hinduism was “false religion,” just that it’s based on “false gods.”

Nuxoll said. “I felt I had to abstain, because I’m not going to be praying to false gods. I’m a believer like Mother Teresa that everybody should be the best they can.” She said she encourages Rajan Zed, the Hindu cleric who gave the Idaho Senate invocation, to “be the best Hindu that he can for his faith and beliefs,” and said, “He can say a prayer anywhere he wants in the Capitol,” but said, “I’m in a floor session bound to follow the Constitution. … It is a Christian nation based on Christian principles. To start out our day, we usually say a Christian prayer. I would’ve been fine if we had also had a Christian prayer.” Nuxoll said she believes the Constitution is “based on Judeo-Christian principles.”

“Prayer isn’t a show,” she said. “Prayer is a relationship with God – that’s what prayer is. So how can I join in a prayer where it’s a false god?”

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From North Idaho, with hair like that…who would've thunk it?

mrklean wrote:

kalm wrote:The amount of stupid here is 57% of Republicans favor making Christianity the official religion of the U.S., but yeah…the christian right has no influence over the party.

JSO, when Texas and Louisiana secede, please take Idaho with you.


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From North Idaho, with hair like that…who would've thunk it?

KALM, you said two words, Northern Idaho..........

89Hen wrote:This begs the question... are we over using the "POS" moniker?

Maybe DAS is more fitting?

kalm wrote:

89Hen wrote:This begs the question... are we over using the "POS" moniker?

Maybe DAS is more fitting?

Does it really "beg" the question?

89Hen wrote:

kalm wrote:
Does it really "beg" the question?

It figuratively begs the question.

kalm wrote:

mrklean wrote:
KALM, you said two words, Northern Idaho..........

Yeah…it's the Georgia of the Northwest. What's too bad is there are at least a couple of bastions of sanity (Couer d' alene and Sandpoint)

Baldy wrote:

kalm wrote:
Yeah…it's the Georgia of the Northwest. What's too bad is there are at least a couple of bastions of sanity (Couer d' alene and Sandpoint)

Not even close.
Not enough knee grows...or culture...no beaches. The food is much better in GA, as are the women.
Nice try...massive fail.

An Iowa woman will make history next month by being the first Wiccan in the nation to give the opening invocation at a state legislature.

Although Christian pastors and priests normally give the invocation, Deborah Maynard of the People’s Church Unitarian Universalist told KCRG that Democratic state Rep. Liz Bennett asked her to open the Iowan House of Representatives with a Wiccan prayer on April 9.

JohnStOnge wrote:So let me get this straight: You guys are making a big deal out of a Christian choosing not to participate in a Hindu prayer?

kalm wrote:

mrklean wrote:
KALM, you said two words, Northern Idaho..........

Yeah…it's the Georgia of the Northwest. What's too bad is there are at least a couple of bastions of sanity (Couer d' alene and Sandpoint)