Most of the ire over US Senator Dianne Feinstein's (D-Calif.) guest, Rev. Canon Gary Hall for his anti-gun public prayer and comments is hypocritical.

 

Our American society is extremely tolerant toward public religious speech (been to Iran lately?). At the annual March for Life in Washington, DC. today politicians and clergy spoke and publicly prayed side-by-side against the murder of the unborn though abortion.

 

Meanwhile the intolerant fringe group Americans United for Separation of Church and State is working to ban public prayer at the United States Military Academy at West Point. 

 

It is the imposition of a belief system, a belief in the "separation of church and state," that demands we extinguish 200 years of tradition at West Point because it is offensive to a couple of cadets. 

 

Is it the imposition of a belief system to speak and pray for gun-control legislation while standing next to a US Senator?

 

As a gun owner, conceal-and-carry permit holder and vocal supporter of the 2nd Amendment I completely disagree with Rev. Canon Gary Hall's views on gun-control legislation. Yet to condemn his use of public prayer and referring to such legislation as a matter of life and death, because he is a member of the clergy, because he professes to speak from a studied religious basis, is to embrace the dishonest and dangerous premise of "separating church and state."

 

In the business of law-making our legislators consistently chose one morality, one religious perspective, one belief system over another. As a nation we have consistently enacted laws based on Judeo-Christian teachings over that of Confucius, Sharia Law or what the Dali Lama teaches. To restrict the input of religious individuals because they claim they are being led by God is to embrace the false notion titled "separation of church and state."

 

To repudiate Rev. Canon Gary Hall for his public religious speech and prayer is two-faced unless you have bought the lie of "separation of church and state."