Inaugural Prayers Heavily Partisan

Inaugural Prayers Heavily Partisan January 21, 2017

Yes they were eloquent and delivered with conviction, but the three invocations (opening prayers) and three benedictions (closing prayers) offered at the presidential inauguration were egregiously Christian.

Sure, we had our token female minister, Paula White-Cain of Florida’s New Destiny Christian Center, and Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean and founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center – but come on! Five Christian clergy, most of whom asserted the supreme lordship of Jesus? How inclusive and ecumenically sensitive was that?

The Agenda?

Let’s see . . with three publicly anti-LGBT clergy – namely Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Rev. Dr. Samuel Rodriguez, and Rev. Franklin Graham (Billy’s son) – and a preacher of the “prosperity gospel” (White-Cain), one could judiciously speculate a Supremacist Christian right/wealthy elite agenda.

But let’s not politicize the “nice” prayers and clergy choices for the presidential inauguration.

Oh sorry, I just did.

The Missing Ministers?

Hmmm . . . If I’m not mistaken I think there are a few mosques and Buddhist temples scattered around the U.S.

And where were their clergy representatives? Most likely meditating and praying for the healing and enlightenment of our splintered nation.

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Think I’ll grab my yoga mat and join them. Are you coming?

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