House Speaker Mike Johnson sparked an unusual religion controversy last week when he recited a prayer in front of Congress after being reelected as speaker of the House.
The problem, at least according to some scholars, wasn’t that he prayed in the U.S. Capitol. It was that he claimed to be quoting former President Thomas Jefferson.
The prayer is “a reminder of what our third President and the primary author of the Declaration of Independence thought was so important that it should be a daily recitation,” Johnson said before he read his “prayer for the nation.”
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