Buffalo Boy's Blog

This is something that has been begging for me to write about since the choice of Rick Warren to provide the prayer at the inauguration of Barack Obama.

To me this isn't about what this guy stands for or what he has said, most of us know hes only slightly better than Pat Robertson and the late scumbag Jerry Falwell. What it boils down to for me, is why do we need any prayer at a political event? Why do we need anyone to pray at this? I know there is always prayer at these events and maybe that is the bigger issue.

It again leads to my biggest argument of all time, separation of church and state. Politics and religion have no business being on the same stage. Make all the fancy, hyped up speeches you want at this thing, Barack Obama has earned the right to have people up there praising him and has earned the spectacle that the inauguration has become over the year, but do we really need someone to lead the country in a prayer? If we do, why does it have to be an Evangelical Christian like Warren?

Why can't it be a Catholic priest or a non denominational religious figure who doesn't represent any one religion and just do a blanket catch all prayer? Freedom from religion, thats one of the things this country was founded on. We, as Americans have a right to choose our religious beliefs, and we also have a right not to have someone else's beliefs jammed down our throats at a political event.

Evangelicals get this podium in politics like they are the majority in terms of religions in this country. They are far from the majority when it comes to practicing faiths. Catholics are by far and away the majority in this country. Of course the best choice, would be no prayer at all because really, if you can't appeal to all, then you shouldn't allow it to speak in a political forum.