Okay. I\u2019m really busy this morning and I\u2019m jetting through my mail at faster than usual speeds. I get a note from somebody complaining (as I thought) that somebody somewhere had included a prayer in the liturgy for health care reform. I do, in fact, get a fair amount of mail from people who assume that if somebody prays something in common with a Democrat, that is prima facie proof that they are a CINO. So I post the note and pen a gripe about party spirit trumping the Church\u2019s teaching. I assumed it was standard boilerplate hyperbole that she was accusing the pray-ers of worshipping Obama.<\/p>\n
My correspondent writes to complain, so I visit the link as, yes, I ought to have done originally.<\/p>\n
Oh. My. Lord. Must be seen to be believed.<\/p>\n
So: first of all, my sincere apologies to my reader for assuming way too much about her post to me. Mea maxima culpa. Second, I nominate myself for the First CAEI Brick Award for the Stupidest Misreading of Correspondence from a Reader.<\/p>\n
UPDATE: Listening to this video with my eyes shut, I\u2019m hearing some in the crowd saying \u201cHear us, Obama\u201d, but I\u2019m also thinkin\u2019 the helpful interpretive text guides inserted by the videomakers are supplying verbiage that ain\u2019t there on the soundtrack. So I chalk this one up to a slight advantage for the organizers of the rally in the video who are, thank God, not such fools as to actually bid their followers to pray to Obama (though some of the followers sound to me like they are doing so). The makers of the video are, I think, letting their hostility to Obama tell them what their itching ears want to hear.<\/p>\n
MORAL: I shouldn\u2019t post stuff like this when I don\u2019t have time to vet it carefully. Gimme another Brick Award nomination!<\/p>\n