{"id":10000,"date":"2025-06-06T16:32:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T16:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mary-miller-says-shes-deeply-troubled-by-sikh-man-leading-house-floor-prayer-in-deleted-xenophobic-post\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T16:32:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T16:32:03","slug":"mary-miller-says-shes-deeply-troubled-by-sikh-man-leading-house-floor-prayer-in-deleted-xenophobic-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mary-miller-says-shes-deeply-troubled-by-sikh-man-leading-house-floor-prayer-in-deleted-xenophobic-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Miller says she\u2019s \u2018deeply troubled\u2019 by Sikh man leading House floor prayer in deleted xenophobic post"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Rep. Mary Miller (R-Ill.) said in a since-deleted social media post on Friday it was \u201cdeeply troubling\u201d that a Sikh man, whom she initially misidentified as Muslim, led a prayer on the floor of the House.<\/p>\n<p>Miller <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nicholaswu12\/status\/1931006317017149514\" target=\"_blank\"><u>wrote on X that the man<\/u><\/a>, Giani Surinder Singh, \u201cshould never have been allowed\u201d to lead the prayer and called for Congress to uphold the \u201ctruth\u201d that \u201cAmerica was founded as a Christian nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Miller\u2019s original post incorrectly identified Singh as Muslim. She subsequently corrected the post before deleting it entirely.<\/p>\n<p>Singh was invited to lead the prayer, a regular tradition ahead of House sessions being called to order, by Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-N.J.).<\/p>\n<p>Miller did not immediately respond to a request for comment. <\/p>\n<p>Some Democrats immediately condemned Miller\u2019s post. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s deeply troubling that someone with such contempt for religious freedom is allowed to serve in this body,\u201d Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-N.J.) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/repbonnie\/status\/1931014439999857128\" target=\"_blank\"><u>posted on X<\/u><\/a>. \u201cThis should have never been allowed to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Mary Miller (R-Ill.) said in a since-deleted social media post on Friday it was \u201cdeeply troubling\u201d that a Sikh man, whom she initially misidentified as Muslim, led a prayer on the floor of the House. Miller wrote on X that the man, Giani Surinder Singh, \u201cshould never have been allowed\u201d to lead the prayer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}