Liberal Democrats, frustrated by their inability to enact sweeping gun control measures, have long responded with hostility to conservative Republicans offering their “thoughts and prayers” in the wake of mass shootings, viewing it as a dodge on guns.
But following the murder of children at prayer in a Catholic church and school by a shooter who may have been motivated in part by anti-Christian sentiment, some thought the anti-prayer pushback was inappropriate at best and displayed sneering contempt for religion at worst.
Top Democrats at times appeared to be questioning the purpose or efficacy of prayer itself in their impassioned pro-gun control statements.
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“Prayer is not freaking enough,” Jen Psaki, a television personality who served as former President Joe Biden’s first White House press secretary,
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