Day of Dog Whistles
If there was ever a fantastic day for Jewish nonbelivers, today was it. Not only did both our repersentative demographic slices overwhelming support the man who was inaugurated today, but we got noteworthy shotouts during the inagurual proceedings. The first, and most surprising, was Rick Warren’s direct quotation of the most important prayer in Judaism, the Shema. And then we got Obama’s almost tacked-on shout out in his laundry list of religious believers. Sure, Jews have been mentioned in these lists before (even by Mitt Romney) but it’s rare that any politican purports to recognize the existence of nonbelievers. It’s a good start.
