“It’s that most normal people, including Christians, recognize at first glance that praying in public………is extremely artificial and painfully obvious pandering.â€
My wife and I always pray in restaurants as do the members of our extended family. Evidently all these years we have been guilty of a micro-aggression.
That's obviously not the same thing. But the scripture is quite clear in its condemnation of the public prayer of the Pharisees-- who made a show of it. That is what is being done when Cruz does multiple takes to get scenes of prayer just right for a political ad.