“Jesus”: 13 times. “Lord”: 6 times. “God”: 6 times. And “Donald Trump”: 1 time.
Republican State Rep. Stephanie Borowicz delivered the Pennsylvania House’s opening prayer on Monday, saying “Jesus” thirteen times and asking God to “forgive us,” just before the swearing-in of the state’s first elected Muslim woman lawmaker.
“God forgive us — Jesus — we’ve lost sight of you, we’ve forgotten you, God, in our country, and we’re asking you to forgive us,” Borowicz said, as The Washington Post reports.
“I claim all these things in the powerful, mighty name of Jesus, the one who, at the name of Jesus, every knee will bow, and every tongue will confess, Jesus, that you are Lord, in Jesus’ name,” Rep. Borowicz said.
“By the time she said ‘Amen,’ Borowicz had invoked Jesus 13 times, deploying the name between prayerful clauses as though it were a comma. She mentioned ‘Lord’ and ‘God’ another six times each and referenced ‘The Great I Am’ and ‘the one who’s coming back again, the one who came, died and rose again on the third day,'” The Post adds.
The lawmaker whose swearing-in elicited the Islamophobic “prayer” is Rep. Movita Johnson-Harrell, a Democrat and a Muslim. She posted this to Twitter:
Rep. Borowicz is refusing to apologize.
“That’s how I pray every day. … I don’t apologize ever for praying,” she said, according to this local Pennsylvania reporter: