Like clockwork, the Fox News religion police have struck a new note of outrage over President Obama's worshipping. You may recall that - in addition to being too cozy with Rev. Jeremiah Wright - some of the president's previous religious transgressions include not issuing an Easter proclamation one year, not attending church on Christmas another year, attending church services at the wrong church another Easter and now another wrong church at another Easter! Thank God Fox is on it.
A Fox Nation headline blares, at the top of the page right now: Another Obama Pastor Problem.
So what's the problem this time? The pastor "slammed the religious right." The post came from a CBS News article which says:
The sermon at the service, delivered by Dr. Luis Leon, an Episcopal pastor who delivered the benediction at Mr. Obama's second inauguration, took a turn for the political when the pastor decried those who wax nostalgic about the way things once were.
"I hear all the time the expression 'the good old days'," Leon said. "Well, the good old days, we forget they have been good for some, but they weren't good for everybody.
"You can't go back, you can't live in the past," he added. "It drives me crazy when the captains of the religious right are always calling people back...for Blacks to be back in the back of the bus, for women to be back in the kitchen, for gays to be in the closet and for immigrants to be on their side of the border."
Oh noes! What does this mean for our democracy - other than providing yet another excuse for Fox pundits to foam at the mouth with words like "socialist," "social justice" and "radically transform America?" For goodness sake, I hope Monica Crowley is available.
Meanwhile, Fox will almost certainly continue to ignore the controversial pastors of Sarah Palin and John McCain and continue to welcome as legitimate representatives of mainstream religion such extremists as Robert Jeffress.
Rather than let the Fox News Christian soldiers take a break from fighting the War on Easter, maybe they ought to get right in gear for the War on Christmas. You know how it comes earlier every year.
