{"id":6184,"date":"2010-07-12T00:40:06","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T06:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=6184"},"modified":"2010-07-11T23:23:58","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T05:23:58","slug":"some-government-prayers-bring-lawsuits-others-ignored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/12\/some-government-prayers-bring-lawsuits-others-ignored\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Government Prayers Bring Lawsuits, Others Ignored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Lancaster, California, has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aclu-sc.org\/releases\/view\/102985\">criticized by the ACLU<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jdl.org\/index.php\/blog\/jdl-sues-city-of-lancaster-over-sectarian-prayer\/\">sued by the Jewish Defense League<\/a> for &#8220;sectarian Christian prayers&#8221; at city meetings.\u00a0 In an interesting contrast, it does not appear either the ACLU or the JDL have said anything about the city of Vacaville <a href=\"http:\/\/www.24masti.com\/sanskrit-mantras-to-open-vacaville-city-council-in-california\/6679\/\">doing the same thing in Sanskrit<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Acclaimed Hindu leader Rajan Zed will deliver invocation from Sanskrit scriptures before Vacaville City Council on [July 27th]. After Sanskrit delivery, he then will read the English translation of the prayer.<\/p>\n<p>Sanskrit is considered a sacred language in Hinduism <!--more-->and root language of Indo-European languages.<\/p>\n<p>Zed, who is the president of Universal Society of Hinduism, will recite from Rig-Veda, the oldest scripture of the world still in common use, besides lines from Upanishads and Bhagavad-Gita (Song of the Lord), both ancient Hindu scriptures.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rajan Zed is the same Hindu leader (once referred to as a &#8220;chaplain&#8221;) who <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/01\/christians-and-the-hindu-senate-invocation\/\">prayed in the US Senate in 2007<\/a>, during which three people were removed from the chambers for protesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Lancaster, California, has been criticized by the ACLU and sued by the Jewish Defense League for &#8220;sectarian Christian prayers&#8221; at city meetings.\u00a0 In an interesting contrast, it does not appear either the ACLU or the JDL have said anything about the city of Vacaville doing the same thing in Sanskrit: Acclaimed Hindu leader Rajan Zed will deliver [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[12,5284,19,73,691,692,11,17,689,10,690],"class_list":["post-6184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-aclu","tag-chaplain","tag-government","tag-hindu","tag-jdl","tag-lancaster","tag-prayer","tag-religious-expression","tag-rajan-zed","tag-religion","tag-vacaville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}