“Lawmakers demand answers from Speaker Paul Ryan over House chaplain’s ouster
The Rev. Patrick Conroy has said he still doesn’t know why Ryan asked him to resign.” https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/lawmakers-demand-answers-about-house-chaplain-s-ouster-n869551 “Conroy has been blunt in some of his remarks, including a prayer about the GOP tax bill that he offered on the House floor on Nov. 6, 2017, before the legislation was passed and signed into law by President Donald Trump.
Conroy told The Times that a week later, someone from the Speaker’s office came to see him.
“A staffer came down and said, ‘We are upset with this prayer; you are getting too political,” he said. “It suggests to me that there are members who have talked to him about being upset with that prayer.”
Later, Conroy said, Ryan told him, “Padre, you just got to stay out of politics.”
See also https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/26/us/politics/patrick-conroy-paul-ryan-house-chaplain.html
“Lawmakers demand answers from Speaker Paul Ryan over House chaplain’s ouster
The Rev. Patrick Conroy has said he still doesn’t know why Ryan asked him to resign.” https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/lawmakers-demand-answers-about-house-chaplain-s-ouster-n869551 “Conroy has been blunt in some of his remarks, including a prayer about the GOP tax bill that he offered on the House floor on Nov. 6, 2017, before the legislation was passed and signed into law by President Donald Trump.
Conroy told The Times that a week later, someone from the Speaker’s office came to see him.
“A staffer came down and said, ‘We are upset with this prayer; you are getting too political,” he said. “It suggests to me that there are members who have talked to him about being upset with that prayer.”
Later, Conroy said, Ryan told him, “Padre, you just got to stay out of politics.”
See also https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/26/us/politics/patrick-conroy-paul-ryan-house-chaplain.html
“Religious tensions flare after chaplain’s ouster” http://thehill.com/homenews/house/385280-religious-tensions-flare-after-chaplains-ouster
“The poor don’t have a prayer in today’s Washington” https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-poor-dont-have-a-prayer-in-todays-washington/2018/04/27/70f52bd8-4a43-11e8-8b5a-3b1697adcc2a_story.html?utm_term=.dd2b14aeedff “Over the five months since Ryan’s warning, Conroy dared to continue to preach the teachings of Jesus on the House floor”