A Phoenix school board member who is Native American was stopped from saying the Lord’s Prayer rather than a land acknowledgment – which he says is also a form of prayer.
Jeremiah Cota, a member of the Free People of the San Carlos Apache tribe, called the acknowledgments “virtue signaling” and said they “basically ascribe victimhood status if you’re a Native American,” he told The Center Square.
The board’s legal counsel said the acknowledgment – which acknowledges the land once belonged to Indigenous peoples – must precede any religious prayer, and the board president stopped him mid-prayer.
“I just don’t know why the Lord’s Prayer was so offensive to many people in the room, and that’s very concerning to me,” said Cota, who is new to the board.
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