Bob Barr: “in an age when for many years it seems as if our courts and many of our public institutions have been engaged in a…”

“in an age when for many years it seems as if our courts and many of our public institutions have been engaged in a direct and deliberate effort to eradicate religion and recognition of God from whom all our powers and sense of right and wrong derive from the face of our public Earth, from the face of our public service and our institutions, it is, indeed, gratifying and something to me that is daily important to me to recognize that we in this House as Representatives of the people of the United States of America begin each and every day that we are in session doing their work and doing the Lord's work with a moment of prayer. I am very happy today to have before us today to deliver the prayer for the opening of this session of the Congress this day the Reverend Charles Sineath, Methodist minister from First United Methodist Church where we have the privilege of serving, I and my family, with he and his wife, Ann, today. It is, indeed, an honor to welcome him and his wife, Ann, to this House, the people's House of the United States of America, today.”