And I must commend you on your very nice straw man argument. I won't debate you over your construct of a religion that you already deem a "fairy tale". But we do agree, in essence - our minister should have never been there at that service. Your reason being that you believe that religion has no place there, my reason is that by our minister being there, he has confused, obfuscated, and obscured the real message of Christianity - which, judging from your's and other's comments on this thread, he has succeded beyond imagination.
I'm sorry, I have left you only enough words to misinterpret my meaning. The point I wanted to make was that this was to be a service of healing, a coming together of a community to rebuild its spirit. Since so many look to religion as a potential source of the strength to achieve that healing, its value as a support to people in need of guidance and comfort is diminished to nothingness when petty fights about whose version of "divine truth" should crowd out the others. By showing this bickering and divisiveness about a minister of your faith trying to join with a community of fellow Americans to merely bring the relief his training and experience could be expected to add, your church (and all the other refuseniks) have instead shown that extremely partisan defenses of ancient doctrines are NOT the way to achieve healing.
Yes, I deem religion the choice to make a lifestyle out of a "fairy tale" (which is the believer's Constitutional right), but when following that lifestyle produces the inability to get along with other people either in daily tasks, or extraordinary circumstances, then it is better practiced behind the closed doors of a sanctuary. While I do paradoxically agree that your particular brand of religion should not have been at that ceremony, I applaud your minister for rising above the demogogary of the elders of his "faith". Perhaps he will take it as a sign to go find a church to preach from that accepts all human beings as they are, rather than measuring them by their 100% adherance to all 1000 (or so) narrowly-defined dogmas, some of which were codified by despots of the 4th century, who had no idea what the historic Jesus really did or didn't say.
It's been stated many times here at Free Republic that the Founding Fathers would not recognize the US government we have today as being of their creation, similarly, one must wonder at what Jesus would think of the current state of Christianity.