Ohio House Speaker Interrupts Baptist Pastor's Prayer

[Jerome]

Tuesday's opening legislative prayer was apparently too much for Speaker Rosenberger (right), who shut down the invited minister with an abrupt 'Amen!':

 

[JonC]

I have to admit.....I felt the guys pain.

I've always wondered....why do some pray in archaic English anyway?

 

[just-want-peace]

I have to admit.....I felt the guys pain.

I've always wondered....why do some pray in archaic English anyway?

Wondered the same thing many times!!! (Guess some folk think God wouldn't understand unless the prayer was in KJ English??)

 

[JonC]

Wondered the same thing many times!!! (Guess some folk think God wouldn't understand unless the prayer was in KJ English??)

To get the full effect, look up the video. He didn't say "amen" until over five minutes into the prayer, but his discomfort became obvious after four. With no end in sight, I wonder what was going through his mind. Laugh