"We have not only a Hindu prayer being offered in the Senate, we have a Muslim member of the House of Representatives now, Keith Ellison from Minnesota. Those are changes -- and they are not what was envisioned by the Founding Fathers."

-- Idaho Representative Bill Sali in an Aug. 8 interview with the conservative Christian-based American Family News Network.

Sadly, these words are all too representative of this guy's special brand of bullshit. Before this, he was best known for using the House floor to push a bogus link between breast cancer rates and abortion.

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