Roberts didn't mess it up this time! Who's your Daddy?

[longship]

11. It's cultural, my friend.

Culture changes. And this is one cultural affectation which I and many others in this country very much wish to change. Part of that change is to help people see things from another point of view. The inauguration of the president is not a freaking church service.

I love President Obama, but i find his injection of so much religious trapping into his inaugural off-putting and exclusionary. His is a religious person -- I have no problem with that -- but the inauguration is a civil ceremony, not a sacred one. Barack Obama is a president and rules by the grace of law, not a King who rules by the grace of god. I think this country's founders wrote a treasonous document in 1776 who's main point was breaking with the latter idea. It was signed on or about July 4 of that year.

Meanwhile, it seems like there is a concerted effort in this country, mostly by the GOP, to put back that very same grace of god which we rejected on that July Fourth and which fought a war to reject.

Again, the inauguration of our president is not a freaking church service.