My Two Preachers
So the gays finally got what they wanted. After weeks of whining and bitching (sometimes within reason, often well beyond the bounds of…) about the evangelical and bigoted Reverend Rick Warren, Obama has invited openly gay Reverend Gene Robinson to lead yet another invocation.
Good step? Yeah, probably. Very inclusive, although now the right is whining just as vocally about Robinson as the left (well, the queer left, the other dems didn’t care) has for weeks. (Yes I know, I am too fond of parenthetical statements.)
First, how many freaking innaugural events can Obama throw? I’ve always been a partier, but this is just silly. A kick-off inauguration Sunday before the big event on Tuesday? I get it, he’s kinda a big deal. At the same time: close Guantanamo. Give me health care. Raise my property values already!
Beyond it being a little excessive, I am happy to see some real tokenism out of our elected officials. But you know who’s really getting left out? The atheists. While I’m glad we have a gay and a bigot lined up for the big days… why the hell do we have preachers at government events anyway? Kind of against the whole point of secularism. This wouldn’t fly in a fortune 500 company. No one prays before company meetings (or if they do, they sure has hell didn’t at mine). I think the general consensus is it would be really inappropriate if the head of your Human Resources department asked you to bow your head and think about creationism. Adam, Eve and Steve. (There’s your anti-poligamy slogan right there! Sorry, last parenthetical.)