Manitoba premier wants daily legislative prayer to be more inclusive [Video]

Manitoba’s premier wants to change the prayer that’s recited in the legislature to make it more inclusive of people who practise faiths other than Christianity, and those who hold no faith at all.

Wab Kinew told a breakfast gathering of religious leaders that while the prayer has no overtly Christian references, it still feels like a Christian prayer. It has references to God, uses archaic English, and ends with “amen.”

“I would ask, especially looking around the room here this morning at the people, the good Manitobans who’ve come together, whether that prayer is representative and inclusive of all of us here today,” he said at the Thursday morning multifaith gathering.

While expressing a “deep reverence for Christianity,” Kinew invited faith leaders and other Manitobans to rethink the words of the prayer, which the Speaker of the House recites at the start of every session at the Manitoba Legislature.

However, …