Political Correctness in Prayers? U.S. Left’s Anti-Conventional Behavior Draws Mockery

Congressman Emanuel Cleaver (D-Calif.), who added “A-Men” to the end of his congressional prayer.

A Democratic congressman led the opening prayer for the 117th Congress on Sunday (Jan. 3), adding “A-women” to the end of the prayer, to the ridicule of the crowd. The media analyzed that the prayer was also given a “politically correct” color, showing that the left has gone to the extreme of anti-traditional behavior.

The opening ceremony was hosted by Congressman Emanuel Cleaver, pastor of St. James United Methodist Church in Kansas City, Missouri. He began with the customary prayer to “a God of many names and faiths” and then concluded with “Amen and Amun. He seemed to think that the word “Amen” (A-men) contained a male component, so he added “A-women” (A-women) with a female component to show so-called gender equality, or to blur the genders.

Conservatives point out that the “amen” in Christian and Jewish prayers has nothing to do with gender at all. Originally from the Greek and Hebrew languages, it was introduced into Latin and then into English, meaning “truly” or “so be it. The word “men” in the English word “A-men” is only a phonetic translation and does not have a gender meaning. Cleaver “invented” the “A-women” (A-women) is unknown.

Cleaver shared a video of him praying on social media, but was quickly ridiculed on Twitter by a crowd that included Republican lawmakers.

The media analyzed Cleaver’s actions as reflecting the anti-traditional philosophy pushed by the left of the Democratic Party. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was also widely ridiculed for wanting to remove gender-specific terms such as “father, mother, son and daughter” from the rules of procedure for the 117th Congress.

Rule 23 of the rules provides that gender-specific terms such as “father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, cousin, nephew, niece, husband, wife, father-in-law, mother-in-law” will be replaced with gender-neutral terms such as “parent, child, sibling, parent’s sibling, sibling’s child, spouse, parent-in-law,” etc.