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A post from Double X writer Meredith Simons:
Barack Obama isn't the only person in Washington whose schedule has
been all discombobulated by healthcare reform. Patrick Mahoney,
director of the Christian Defense Coalition, planned on staging a
"pray-in" at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office on Wednesday, but he's
rethinking that now. Apparently the efficacy of a prayer is determined
by its proximity to an event; Mahoney said "it wouldn't make any sense
to be there all day praying if the vote isn't going to be this week."
(He also admitted that there is a "chance that there may be some
arrests" at a speaker's-office pray-in, and he didn't seem to want to
put his group through that more than once.)
But even though the events most likely to get their participants
arrested have been postponed, the delay hasn't stopped activists from
making their presence felt ... (Read more in Double X.)