Friday, September 7, 2012

Dolan’s DNC Closing Prayer

Um, is it just me, or did it seem like Timothy Cardinal Dolan’s prayer (closing the Democratic National Convention) made veiled attacks on alternative lifestyles, gay marriage, a woman’s right to choose (a.k.a.: abortion), putting leaders on pedestals, etc? While he was making his prayer, I was thinking about how the Democrats had made another bad judgment call here, asking this guy who is clearly hostile to some of their platform to close out their convention, when they could have gotten someone else. Or did they want their constituents to come away thinking the guy’s a bigot? I’m not even sure what their intention was here, but I think it was ill-conceived, whatever it was. (Next time, how about a nice Episcopal prayer? Or maybe no prayer? {I thought most liberals weren’t crazy about religion anyway.})

And they put “God” back into their platform, for, um, God’s sake. Shouldn’t he have been less passive-aggressive? But I guess it would have been a lot worse had they not done that, huh? Maybe then he would have called them: “heathens”, “idolaters”, “baby killers”, “sodomites”, etc. You know: directly in those words, rather than just suggesting it with inferences like he did.