Muyskens says clergymen should follow the Guidelines for Civic Occasions, written by the National Conference of Christians and Jews calling for using universal terms for the deity and for recognizing the pluralism of American society. Muyskens and others might worship some generic 'politically correct' god but Joe Wright worships the God of the universe - the God who created everything, and the God who declared He will not share His glory with any other god. Without God, there is no virtue, because there's no prompting of the conscience. Without God, we're mired in the material, that flat world that tells us only what the senses perceive. Without God, there is a coarsening of the society and without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.
Prayer is prayer.
I'm praying to God when I'm praying. I'm not up there to put on a show. I'm there to pray. I don't do it any differently in public than in private. Compromise will not work in religion.