Venkatachalapathi Samuldrala

Venkatachalapathi Samuldrala

Venkatachalapathi Samuldrala is the Parma, Ohio, temple priest that offered the first-ever Hindu prayer in U.S. Congress. [ [http://www.religioustolerance.org/hinduism1.htm ReligiousTolerance.org] "HINDU INVOCATION IN CONGRESS"] [ [http://www.hinduismtoday.com/archives/2001/1-2/2001-1-18.shtml Hinduism Today] ] [ [http://marty-center.uchicago.edu/sightings/archive_2000/sightings-102600.shtml Martin Marty Center] University of Chicago] A leading fundamentalist Christian organization, the Family Research Council, protested the prayer saying, "the United States is a nation that has historically honored the One True God. Woe be to us on that day when we relegate Him to being merely one among countless other deities in the pantheon of theologies." [ [http://www.hinduismtoday.com/archives/2001/1-2/2001-1-18.shtml Hinduism Today] ]

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