Last Sunday, August 2, the Orange County Congregation Community Organization held a prayer vigil for healthcare reform at the St. Callistus Parish in Garden Grove, California. From their website, I take it this organization holds several such gatherings every year, on various topics.
Here is a PDF of the program. As you can see, there were several speakers, most of them from local churches. The program included prayers, a choir, and a dance company. One of the speakers (listed under "Focus on National: Healthcare Reform") was Rep. Loretta Sanchez, who was asked to give a five-minute presentation.
Now the Right is using a video of Rep. Sanchez's part of the program to accuse her of disguising a "townhall" meeting as a prayer vigil.
A number of sites are doing this, accompanies by the usual hatespeech. The comments include a lot of anti-immigration and anti-Catholic rhetoric as well.
Putting aside how many times the Right has wrapped religion around a political issue -- Justice Sunday, anyone? -- it wasn't a bleeping town hall meeting.
Just shows us that the Right will use any opportunity it can find to spout hate.