"Should we allow the dictatorship of the minority?" Several Muslims voting no said they were offended by imams who had urged them at Friday Prayer to vote yes in the name of religion.
Even while it tussles internally between conservative and liberal wings on gay marriage or female bishops, polls of its members show it's no longer the Conservative party at prayer: more vote Lib Dem and Labour.
If u can, send up a prayer & vote!
In a 2011 poll by Billboard, "Like a Prayer" was voted the second best music video of the 1980s, behind only Michael Jackson's "Thriller".
Councilman Shahab Ahmed said mosques would not be penalized if they broadcast the calls to prayer before a vote is held.
The turnout there, as well as that at mosques around the country on the last Friday Prayer before the vote, underscored the potency of the country's religious Shiites.
One showed Carson with hands clasped in prayer; another said, "Vote Republican — we can't ALL be on welfare!" An elderly man wandered through the store, gawking at the line of customers that snaked around the bookcases and outside into the muggy afternoon sun.
"God, we are a divided church," said the Rev. Neal Presa, a New Jersey pastor and the General Assembly moderator, while guiding church members in prayer after the vote.
But if you find the rabbi's behavior in the synagogue to be inappropriate (if, say, he hands out $50 bills during the mourner's prayer), then cast your vote accordingly.
Not only are judges either chosen by politicians or elected by voters, the courts also confront political issues that the other branches either duck or can't settle to general satisfaction, from segregation to voting to prayer in schools to federalism.
It's way past time to combine "thoughts and prayers" with action and vote out those who place protecting guns higher than protecting babies and children and mothers and fathers.
