Before you take any action, discuss the issue and your ideas with your wife. I am assuming that getting your message across to her parents isn't worth the potential bad feelings between the two of you. For the one or two occasions that you spend with them each year, it might be best to just go along with the prayer or at least observe respectful silence.
But that advice is based only on what you explained of your situation, if there are other details that might change my opinion. I am also wondering how your wife feels about the racist remark from her mother and if her parents still hold to such views, and how it affects her relationship with them.
But that advice is based only on what you explained of your situation, if there are other details that might change my opinion. I am also wondering how your wife feels about the racist remark from her mother and if her parents still hold to such views, and how it affects her relationship with them.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
