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.
