# Congressman ends invocation prayer in Congress with "Amen and Awomen"

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**Created:** [January 4, 2021, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-ends-invocation-prayer-in-congress-with-amen-and-awomen/929653 "2021-01-04T20:06:56Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-ends-invocation-prayer-in-congress-with-amen-and-awomen/929653/19 "2021-01-05T01:22:23Z")

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Our supposedly secular Congress opens with a prayer (yet again), and the news story is that the man ended the prayer wrong.

That’s religious privilege for you.

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