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117th US Congress and Gendered Words
Published 5 years, 1 month ago
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The 117th US Congress had an opening prayer by Protestant pastor and
Missouri Democratic representative Emanuel Cleaver in which he prayed to
the Hindu deity Brahma and ended with the words amen and a-woman. Does
"amen" have to do with gender? The next day the US House of Representatives
adopted a proposal forbidding the use of gendered terms in rules documents.
The changes mean that the rules document will use language such as …