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A Prayer and a Plea

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"Legislators, lobbyists push health insurance reform - Before prayer, pastor asks for halt to executions," is Mike Ward's item in today's Austin American-Statesman Capitol Digest.In offering Monday's prayer in the House, the Rev. Michael Piazza of Dallas used the podium to back a moratorium on the death penalty. Just briefly. Before starting his prayer, Piazza, pastor of the Cathedral of Hope church, noted that more than 1,000 members of his congregation had signed a petition seeking a moratorium and asked lawmakers to consider such a move. After the amen, there was no rush to do so in the state with the nation's most active execution chamber.StandDown's religion index has more.

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 10, 2009 (boomark / email).