There has been a lot of social media hubbub about Congressman Emanuel Cleaver's recent prayer in the U.S. House of Representatives, which he closed with "amen and awoman," apparently striving to be gender inclusive. He omitted atransgender.
Cleaver, D-Mo., is an ordained United Methodist who pastored a church in Kansas City for many years. His two-minute prayer was otherwise conventional, full of biblical references and King James cadences - until the very end, when he appealed to the "monotheistic God," the Hindu creator deity "Brahma," and the "god known by many different names and many different faiths."
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