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A White House spokesperson has issued a statement repudiating a report from Time magazine published online today that said President Obama had decided to make the Evergreen Chapel at Camp David his primary place of worship, in order to facilitate more privacy. "The President and First Family continue to look for a church home. They have enjoyed worshipping at Camp David and several other congregations over the months, and will choose a church at the time that is best for their family," is the word from Deputy White House Press Secretary Jennifer Psaki (via the Christian Science Monitor).
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Personally, I couldn't care one whit where the president chooses to worship.
Going from congregation to congregation is good politics, because it makes the folks who worship on Sundays feel extra-special warm fuzzies that they might become one of the chosen ecclesiae. However, for that minority portion of the citizenry who worship on Friday or Saturday, I suspect this mostly feels like window dressing.
And for those few of us completely outside of the faith community, this tedious exercise is one more reminder of the disproportionate pull that religion still exerts on the state.
And another thing, as a pet and animal hater, I am outraged that the majority of the American people demand that the president own a pet. Where is our animal hating voice?
Your analogy is flawed. One doesn't have to hate religion nor religionists to feel that the respect religion is given by the state is disproportionate with respect to other interests.
How do you measure proportion? I suppose if a politician pays more respect to any majority of any sort, he or she can be accused of spreading attention and respect disproportionately.
I'm not sure how this is religion exercising anything on the state. Nor do I see how this is disproportionate of anything. As long as there are no faith based initiatives, as long as there is no blocking of stem cell research, as long as there is no federally mandated or protected intelligent design school programs, than religion is exerting no pull on the state.
So people like some display of religious practice from their politicians, feigned or sincere. So what? They also like to see the president play basketball. Does that mean that basketball has a disproportionate pull on the state?
"...one more reminder of the disproportionate pull that religion still exerts on the state."
I believe our forefathers' intent was to keep the "State" from pushing a certain religion upon its citizens. And we do have a certain right to practice whatever religion we chose INCLUDING THE POTUS.
We Americans are so lame. In some countries the masses would be waiting to see who the presidente' picked as his mistress. We wait to see what he does Sunday morning when not playing golf.
Great! Now looking forward to learning which astrologer the President will consult.
And of course, the post of Presidential numerologist is still vacant; the suspense is killing me.
Praise Zeus for the superstitious mess that is America.