Religious Freedom

From TPMCafe:

Today was a historic first for religion in America's civic life: For the very first time, a Hindu delivered the morning invocation in the Senate chamber — only to find the ceremony disrupted by three Christian right activists.

From the crackpots' press release:

The Senate was opened with a Hindu prayer placing the false god of Hinduism on a level playing field with the One True God, Jesus Christ. This would never have been allowed by our Founding Fathers.

This is from an article from AFA:

WallBuilders president David Barton is questioning why the U.S. government is seeking the invocation of a non-monotheistic god. Barton points out that since Hindus worship multiple gods, the prayer will be completely outside the American paradigm, flying in the face of the American motto "One Nation Under God."

"In Hindu, you have not one God, but many, many, many, many, many gods," the Christian historian explains. "And certainly that was never in the minds of those who did the Constitution, did the Declaration [of Independence] when they talked about Creator -- that's not one that fits here because we don't know which creator we're talking about within the Hindu religion."

I really must learn their secret -- I didn't know you could read someone's mind two hundred years after they died. Barton is obviously an idiot who knows nothing about Hinduism (or anything else besides Bible-belt Christianity, apparently).

And note the linkage in both cases between the Founders and fundamentialist Christianity. Another lie from the right.

Here's more from AmericaBlog.