Venkatachalapathi Samuldrala

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Venkatachalapathi Samuldrala is the Parma, Ohio, temple priest that offered the first-ever Hindu prayer in U.S. Congress.[1][2][3] A leading fundamentalist Christian organization, the Family Research Council, protested the prayer saying, "the United States is a nation that has historically honored the One True God. Woe be to us on that day when we relegate Him to being merely one among countless other deities in the pantheon of theologies."[4]

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  1. ^ ReligiousTolerance.org "HINDU INVOCATION IN CONGRESS"
  2. ^ Hinduism Today
  3. ^ Martin Marty Center University of Chicago
  4. ^ Hinduism Today
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