Alicia M. Reyes-BarriĆ©ntez, a political science professor at a San Antonio university, was invited by Councilwoman Rebecca Viagran to give the invocation on Thursday at a City Council meeting. Her prayer involved an apology for “stolen lands” of the indigenous nations before White settlers arrived to San Antonio, and also called for the city council to stand against racism and indicated that God was a female.

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