More press coverage for today’s “pray-in” at the Capitol. In this video from Huffington Post, you can see my boss Jennifer Butler, Executive Director of Faith in Public Life (where I’m a fellow this summer), just in front of the adorable old rabbi. She’s also the first one carted off to the holding cells. From the article:
WASHINGTON — Capitol Hill police arrested 11 people — many of them members of the clergy — protesting the Republican House budget-cutting plan, a police spokeswoman said.
The group, organized by Common Cause’s president, the Rev. Bob Edgar, occupied the center of the historic Rotunda for more than a half hour Thursday, praying and singing until police closed the massive chamber and arrested the group, one by one.
As consumate DC insider Wonkette put it, “Religious People Arrested For Singing Kumbaya, Holding Hands.” And, you know, for doing more to solve the debt crisis than Speaker John Boehner, who once again postponed a vote in the House on a measure the Senate has already promised to kill. What a mess.
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