Pennsylvania GOP legislator prays to Jesus for forgiveness
State Rep. Stephanie Borowicz was on the ninth "Jesus" of her opening prayer in the Pennsylvania statehouse when other lawmakers started to look uncomfortable.
Speaker Mike Turzai, a fellow Republican, glanced up - but Borowicz carried on, delivering a 100-second ceremonial invocation that some of her colleagues decried as an offensive, divisive and Islamophobic display shortly before the legislature swore in its first Muslim woman.
"God forgive us - Jesus - we've lost sight of you, we've forgotten you, God, in our country, and we're asking you to forgive us," Borowicz said, followed by a quote from the Bible's second book of Chronicles that implores God's followers to "turn from their wicked ways." Then she praised President Donald Trump for his unequivocal support of Israel....
