I hope you don't mind, Fred, but I have very little interest in continuing this discussion. We can go back & forth about this for weeks, we won't get anywhere. Certain actions are offensive to certain groups (of) people. Certain other actions are offensive to certain other groups of people. Don't know why this is so difficult to understand...
Personally I'm not easily offended anyway: praying in front of me is ok, drawing an offensive cartoon is ok, ...
And I'd like to think that I at least try to respect different points of view. I'm also not the one who goes shouting about "respecting my beliefs & choices" while not giving a damn about other people's beliefs & choices.
Besides, I don't think I suggested he shouldn't pray, I merely think it would be a better idea for him to do it in private.