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Pastor’s opening prayer draws interruption after denouncing 'homosexual lifestyle'

Utah State Senate · February 28, 1996
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A guest pastor’s opening prayer at the Utah State Senate on Feb. 28 included language condemning homosexuality and drew an on-floor interruption. Senators recorded an objection during the invocation; the session proceeded after the interruption and a subsequent “Amen.”

A guest minister’s invocation at the Utah State Senate on Feb. 28 prompted an on-floor interruption after the speaker criticized what he called the “homosexual lifestyle.” Pastor Jim Schadler of the Metro Fellowship Assembly of God delivered the prayer before the roll call and, in language some senators later signaled was out of order, called for lawmakers to “stand up for what is moral, good, and…

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