{"id":146849,"date":"2021-01-04T17:09:57","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T14:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/rep-emanuel-cleaver-closes-congress-opening-prayer-with-amen-and-awoman\/"},"modified":"2021-01-04T17:09:57","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T14:09:57","slug":"rep-emanuel-cleaver-closes-congress-opening-prayer-with-amen-and-awoman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/rep-emanuel-cleaver-closes-congress-opening-prayer-with-amen-and-awoman\/","title":{"rendered":"#Rep. Emanuel Cleaver closes Congress’ opening prayer with ‘amen and awoman’"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Rep. Emanuel Cleaver closes Congress’ opening prayer with ‘amen and awoman’<\/strong>”
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A House Democrat tasked with leading the body in an opening prayer for the new Congress has gendered the word \u201camen.\u201d<\/p>\n

To close a prayer he delivered from the House chamber Sunday to mark the swearing in of the 117th Congress, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.), an ordained minister, altered the traditional \u201camen\u201d to say \u201camen and awoman.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMay the lord lift up the light of his countenance upon us and give us peace,\u201d Cleaver said during his two-minute invocation, \u201cPeace in our families, peace across this land, and dare I ask o Lord, peace even in this chamber.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe ask it in the name of the monotheistic God, Brahma, and \u2018god\u2019 known by many names by many different faiths. Amen and awoman.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Cleaver may have been trying to be inclusive to women, \u201camen\u201d is not a gendered word. The word translates from Hebrew to mean \u201cso be it.\u201d <\/p>\n

The Missouri lawmaker did not seem phased by internet reaction to his \u201cawoman\u201d remark, posting video of the prayer to Twitter<\/a> Sunday and writing, \u201cI was honored to deliver the opening prayer for the 117th Congress.<\/p>\n

\u201cMay God bless each and every Representative with the courage and wisdom to defend our democracy and the liberties we all hold so dearly.\u201d<\/p>\n

His decision to gender the word, however, comes just days after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) introduced new House rules that would \u201chonor all gender identities\u201d by eliminating specific terms such as mother and father, son and daughter, and aunt and uncle.<\/p>\n

Instead, only gender-neutral terms such as \u201cparent,\u201d \u201cchild,\u201d \u201csibling\u201d and \u201cparent\u2019s sibling\u201d would be allowed in the text of Congressional rules.<\/p>\n

Calling the rules \u201cfuture-focused\u201d in a statement upon their release, Pelosi defended them as \u201cthe most inclusive in history.\u201d<\/p>\n

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