The purpose of this thread is to investigate, discuss and debate whether or not the First U. S. Congress opened its daily sessions with prayer, as is often claimed. After years of searching the historical records of the First U. S. Congress and finding no evidence of,

House or Senate resolutions, during the First U. S. Congress, ordering a daily opening prayer

The Chaplains to Congress ever being assigned any regular daily duties by either chamber of the First U. S. Congress, or

Opening prayers recorded in the House or Senate Journals of the First U. S. Congress, the Senate Executive Journal of the First U. S. Congress, Maclay's Journal or the Annals of Congress of the First U. S. Congress,

I am convinced that there is not much, if any, credible historical evidence to support the claim that the First U. S. Congress opened its sessions with prayer.

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I find it appalling that Justice Antonin Scala, in his dissenting opinion in McCreary County v. ACLU, constructed his model of "the relationship between church and state" in America without even considering the actual text of the Constitution. How do incompetents like him get on the U. S. Supreme Court?