What Are These Asshats Afraid Of?

The Chesterfield County, Virginia, Board of Supervisors insist on having a prayer before their meetings. Of course, they can't do that, so they altered it to an "invocation" to keep from running afoul of the ACLU or whomever. Now, a Wiccan wants to offer her invocation and the Board is all in a tizzy. They are trying to fine-tune the law to keep her out.

What is it with asshats like this? They want to practice their religion, which is fine, but they also want to inflict it on others, which is not. Government, with regard to religion, is clear: it's nothing or everything. There is no middle ground. You either keep religion out of the practice of government, or you allow all religions to participate. Either no one offers a "whatever" before the meeting, or you allow anyone who wants to offer a "whatever" the opportunity to do so. It's just that simple.

What are these doofs afraid of? That a one minute exposure to Wicca will corrupt them? Are they afraid that Christianity is so weak in what it has to offer that somone might get ideas if they heard from the competition? Do they want to reserve government to their own kind and keep those "others" out? That's what it sounds like, and if I were a citizen there I'd be worried at where else they apply that kind of thinking. Maybe they want to keep you out of their government as well? Keep the power and privilege and money for themselves?

I swear I despair at this kind of fearful idiocy. There are undoubtedly more ministers in that county than Wiccans. So 95% of the time, Christian ministers speak and 5% of the time it's rabbis, imams and Wiccans. This is intolerable?