Why the HELL Are Gays So Excited about Religion?
Filed by: Yasmin Nair
January 16, 2009 2:30 PM
http://www.bilerico.com/2009/01/why_the_hell_are_gays_so_excited_about_r.php (http://www.bilerico.com/2009/01/why_the_hell_are_gays_so_excited_about_r.php)
Obama has decided that Gene Robinson will deliver the opening prayer at his inauguration, and the gay community is ecstatic at the idea of an openly gay pastor at such a public event. Of course, all this excitement comes after the keenly voiced anger over Rick Warren.
In all this hoopla about religion, we seem to have forgotten a key issue: the separation of church and state. In October 2008, Reverend Moody wrote worriedly about the how "Religion Threatens '08 Presidency" More recently, Richard Kim, also writing in The Nation, asks, "...why not make the case for secularism, the separation of church and state and the purity of the constitutional oath?"
Kim's article indicates that he understands that this will be a losing battle. We've long since given up the pretense that ours is a country defined by the separation of church and state, a fact driven home to me recently as I waited in a courtroom and looked up at the words "In God We Trust," in giant silver metal letters on the wall. The atheist in me wondered: so, with God looking over things, who needs Justice?
I actually have a brief rant concerning God & the U.S. in the AandroGgyne section.
My feeling is that all these religoids are insulting the work of Washington and the other forefathers.
I believe that is what was once called treason.