Well, just to give PBS the benefit of the doubt (not that I’m a fan of their uber-liberal politics), could it be that since it’s public, taxpayer supported television, they were afraid that showing a prayer might be constituted as an “endorsement” of religion, and then the ACLU and separation of Church and State people would get their panties in a bunch and start harassing them, and they were trying to avoid that? Just a thought (I’m kinda surprised they aired the RNC at all, actually).
In Christ,
Ellen