The Congressional Chaplain, Father Patrick J. Conroy,
earns a salary of $172,500 per year,
over three times what I earn as a professor. To earn this salary, all he has to
do is to open each session with a prayer, a duty that he frequently delegates
to an assistant.
Not only does this give Father Conroy a lot of free time
to do other things, many or all of which could make him more money (I don’t know
what he does with the rest of his time), but it also provides him with a huge
amount of influence on Congressional deliberations. While I have not seen any
videos of Conroy’s prayers, I have posted a video of a Baptist minister in
Oklahoma who opened a session of the Oklahoma House of Representatives with aprayer that had clear political content.
This would be very easy to do without being overt. A Congressional chaplain
could say, “Guide us O Lord in our deliberations to defend the current
government of the people who have claimed in the past to be Your Chosen Nation,
and guide us to support the political party that claims to have special
exemptions from Your Moral Law…” Well, maybe that would be a bit overt, but
what is to stop him from doing it?
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