(FAITHWIRE) -- Republican lawmakers in the North Dakota state Senate turned their backs on a chaplain last month as she led the politicians in prayer in a display that has since garnered local media attention.
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“I just didn’t expect it,” Rev. Dr. Leanne Simmons, pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Bismarck, told KFYR-TV. “When I saw it, though, my first reaction was, ‘Oh, that looks really ugly.'”
As is customary at the start of each floor session, Simmons — one of many local religious leaders to deliver the invocation inside the state Capitol — began praying over the Senate Feb. 8, when state Sens. Michael Wobbema (R) and Janne Myrdal (R) turned away from the minister as she spoke.
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