We’re just days into 2021, and already the race for the most inane politically correct statement of the year has a strong frontrunner. Ending the prayer opening the new session of Congress, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) intoned, “ Amen and a-woman .” So first, let’s do a fact check: “ Amen ” has as little to do with men as “menstruation” does. It originates from Hebrew and means to give assent — and shares nothing with the word “men” except<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
At times, House Democrats’ flippancy toward gender and religion — like ending a prayer with “a-women” — is laughable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[79,293,42,41,55,43],"class_list":["post-1766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-congress","tag-congress-courts","tag-politics","tag-potus","tag-society","tag-u-s-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}