It strikes me that the author of that column has misanalyzed the situation.
The controversy is not about the fact that Obama chose a religious figure to lead the invocation, but about which religious figure he chose. Did anyone expect him to choose a nonreligious secular authority to deliver the invocation?
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Date: 2008-12-30 07:47 pm (UTC)The controversy is not about the fact that Obama chose a religious figure to lead the invocation, but about which religious figure he chose. Did anyone expect him to choose a nonreligious secular authority to deliver the invocation?