{"id":184162,"date":"2025-09-24T11:13:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T06:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=184162"},"modified":"2025-09-24T11:13:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T06:13:57","slug":"texas-republican-opposes-hanuman-statue-calls-us-a-christian-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2025\/09\/24\/texas-republican-opposes-hanuman-statue-calls-us-a-christian-nation.html","title":{"rendered":"Texas Republican opposes Hanuman statue, calls US a Christian nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-184163\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/09\/Capture1-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"214\" \/>New Delhi: A senior Republican leader in Texas has opposed the installation of a 90-foot statue of Hindu deity Hanuman, declaring that the United States is a Christian nation and describing the idol as a \u201cfalse god.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, Alexander Duncan, a state-level Republican figure and senate candidate, took to social media to criticise the newly unveiled \u201cStatue of Union\u201d in Sugar Land, Texas. The bronze structure, located at the Sri Ashtalakshmi Temple, is the tallest depiction of Hanuman outside India and the fourth-tallest statue in the US.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy are we allowing a false statue of a false Hindu god to be here in Texas? We are a CHRISTIAN nation!\u201d Duncan posted, citing biblical verses from Exodus and Romans. He urged Americans to remain \u201cone nation under God\u2026 .\u201d While claiming he did not \u201chate anyone,\u201d Duncan insisted he was \u201cspeaking boldly\u201d about faith, warning that silence on the issue would amount to \u201creal hate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Hindu American Foundation (HAF) condemned his remarks as discriminatory and called on the Republican Party of Texas to act. \u201cWill you be disciplining your senate candidate who openly contravenes your own guidelines against discrimination \u2014 displaying some pretty sordid anti-Hindu hate \u2014 not to mention disrespect for the 1st Amendment?\u201d the group said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: A senior Republican leader in Texas has opposed the installation of a 90-foot statue of Hindu deity Hanuman, declaring that the United States is a Christian nation and describing the idol as a \u201cfalse god.\u201d According to Kashmir Media Service, Alexander Duncan, a state-level Republican figure and senate candidate, took to social media &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":184163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hindutva"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/09\/Capture1-3.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184164,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184162\/revisions\/184164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}