As an atheist, I'm offended that there even *IS* an invocation or benediction.... [View All]

Someday, before I'm worm-food, I hope that all the religious bullshit that we put up with in our secular government goes the way of do-do bird.

I want the secular government that people like Thomas Jefferson wanted. I don't want prayers on the floor of the senate or house... or at our swearing-in ceremonies.

I don't want my President swearing on a 3000-year-old book of mythology either.

I want my President putting his hand on a copy of the Constitution.

I want my kids learning to recite and memorize the preamble to the Constitution and not the Pledge of Allegiance. My allegiance is to an idea, embodied in the Consititution, not to a colorful rag.


I'm not going to get what I want.


For you GLBT DUers.... I'm sorry about Prop8. You deserve the same right to marriage as anyone.


But the election of Obama moves the needle closer to the GLBT side than it has been in 8 years. It also moves the needle closer to the atheist side than it has been in 8 years.

So I'm going to continue to be thrilled at what the American people accomplished a month and a half ago.

...and I'm going to save my outrage for my enemies, and not for Obama.