Newsweek photo GW standing with hands clasped in prayer

With a little bit of photo cropping, a bit better photo below...

And you may even notice that GW has his hands clasped in prayer.

What is not noticeable is that the three pens with which the 80-some Conservative leaders were soon to sign the Mount Vernon Statement were inside the clasped hands in prayer, 

each man and woman who signed and the group each represented received a silent prayer from GW.

In relation to the slightly sarcastic headline, 

George Washington Turns Over In His Grave

it may be wise for folks to see the words engraved in stone over where

Washington rests each night at Mount Vernon...

"...though he were dead, yet shall he live;

and whosoever liveth and

and believeth in me, shall never die.

- the words of Jesus Christ from St. John 11:25, 26 (X1.25.26)