Posted by
Playful Walrus on Monday, January 26, 2009 1:09:17 PM
Ron Streicher of Pasadena wrote in to the Los Angeles Times:
Religious leaders -- of any faith -- must come to understand that at any secular or governmental event (and especially one of so high a stature as the inauguration of a president) the imposition of any specific theology or deity name is inappropriate at best.
No, it isn’t inappropriate. When you ask a Christian pastor to speak or deliver a prayer, this is to be expected. When the President professes to be a Christian, this is entirely appropriate. This has precedence going back for hundreds of years in this country.
The United States is not a theocracy, no matter how much the Christian right would have it otherwise.
I'd like to see documentation of a major representative of the "Christian right" calling on us to become a theocracy instead of adhering to the Constitution. I have read and heard a lot of from "religious right" speakers and authors, and they have strongly supported the Constitution.