>>I have a hunch that most folks have few problems with a generic prayer. I’ve seen about a million at different events, and it never seemed to me like the crowd was getting agitated.<<
No, if you pray a watered-down prayer to a non-specific deity that “everyone can agree on,” then you have prayed to nothing. Of course no one will be offended. This is known as the Football Game God, the one people bow their heads and pretend to pray to before a football game.
Very politically correct and non-offensive.
However, most of us are sick to death with all the PC crap being shoved down our throat, and having our rights squelched by self-appointed tyrants such as mentioned in the article.
Feel free to roll over and take it. The rest of us won’t.
In order for me to "Roll over and take it." I'd have to first be offended, and I'm not offended.
However, most of us are...
I'll stop you right there. I don't believe that you're speaking for most.