[Mandingo Conservative]

I don’t like this bishop guy - I really know who he is, but to play devil’s advocate he does have a point. Not everyone in America is a Christian. There is no state religion - I can see if there was a law or if the Constitution said Christianity was the sanctioned faith. I mean to be fair, what about Jews, Moslems, Buddhists, those Wiccans, Bahias...I know this sounds liberal saying this -

Maybe they should have a chaplin for all the different religions?

[Interesting Times]

Maybe they should have a chaplin for all the different religions?

Certainly. But we'll have to include a voodoo chicken sacrifice to avoid being intolerant and undiverse.

[informavoracious]

That would be the solution. Multiple chaplains each representing his faith. Doing it the V. Gene Monologue way renders the prayer meaningless. Of course, that might be the real intent anyway.

[informavoracious]

"Maybe they should have a chaplin..."

Charlie, or Geraldine?

[messierhunter]

Not everyone in America is a Christian. There is no state religion

Everyone in America, however, is allowed to exercise their faith in public. That goes for Obama as well. He has every right to invite as many or as few priests, pastors, rabbis, etc to his inaugural ceremonies as he wants. That is his personal decision and it has nothing to do with establishing a state religion. He has as much right to invite Vicki as he does Warren. I may prefer one choice over the other myself, but it's not my choice or anyone else's but Obama's.