I heard about this story from an a fundamentalist friend who has her panties in a bunch about it.
There won’t be a fly over at the Idaho God and Country festival.
The religious are sure it is because they are a christian organization and the Obama administration is of course, discriminating against the poor Christians.
It’s probably financial.
For a minute though, let’s assume it isn’t. Let’s say that the administration is actually enforcing the separation between church and state.
Why?
Here’s what I think could be the biggest reason…
Gay marriage.
One of the huge scare tactics the religious right keeps using to promote their bigotry is that of “if the gays can get married we will be FORCED to marry them in our churches”.
Gay marriage is coming. Maybe not this year, or even the next decade, but it will happen. Obama knows that if he can get gay marriage through during his time in office, and if he has been enforcing the rules of separation of church and state, he can tell the pissy Christians “see, because we didn’t violate the separation clause to give you the freebies you wanted, we can also enforce it here, we CAN NOT force you to marry anyone in your church.”
Although I haven’t always agreed with the things Obama is doing, I do get the feeling he is always a few steps ahead of the games.
