What’s worse: bigotry or ignorance? Constituents of MAGA Congresswoman Mary Miller of Illinois don’t have to choose. As she reminded the nation last week (not for the first time), she embodies both.
Rep. Miller, an east-central Illinois Republican whose wildly gerrymandered district stretches into the Metro East, is perhaps best known for a 2021 speech about reaching out to youth that riffed on the premise, “Hitler was right on one thing …”
She apparently hasn’t evolved much since then. Miller posted Friday on X that it was “deeply troubling that a Muslim was allowed to lead prayer” in the House because “America was founded as a Christian nation.”
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Problem No. 1: America was founded with a First Amendment that gives all Americans the right to practice any religion they want or none at all.
Problem No. 2: Suggesting that any member of a non-Christian religion shouldn’t be allowed to lead the morning House prayer is the dictionary definition of religious bigotry.
Problem No. 3: The person who gave the prayer, Giani Singh, isn’t Muslim — he’s Sikh.
But hey, as Hitler himself might have agreed, all those foreign religions from darker-hued countries are pretty much the same anyway, right? Sheesh.
