Yesterday, Another Arizona Legislator Delivered a Godless Invocation on the House Floor

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February 7, 2014
By Hemant Mehta

Remember last year, when Arizona State Rep. Juan Mendez delivered a secular invocation on the House floor?

Carl Sagan once wrote, “For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love.” There is, in the political process, much to bear. In this room, let us cherish and celebrate our shared humanness, our shared capacity for reason and compassion, our shared love for the people of our state, for our Constitution, for our democracy — and let us root our policymaking process in these values that are relevant to all Arizonans regardless of religious belief or nonbelief. In gratitude and in love, in reason and in compassion, let us work together for a better Arizona.

It was that awesome.

Well, yesterday, on a day when representatives from the Secular Student Alliance and the Secular Coalition for Arizona were visiting the state capitol, another politician delivered a godless prayer. This time, Rep. Ruben Gallego (below) did the honors.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2014/02/07/yesterday-another-arizona-legislator-delivered-a-godless-invocation-on-the-house-floor/

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1. Arizona clearly has a variety of perspectives, don't they?

Civil war?

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2. They do. The same chamber also houses the idiot who sponsored the corporate religious rights bill.