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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis DUer finally got to give invocation. The bastards gave a second Jesus-y invocation
After offering to give the invocation before our County Committee meeting and using legal threats since theirs are all ‘Lord Jesus blah blah Jesus God blah blah Jesus’.. I finally got to yesterday. I included Pride..
My invocation was inclusive and I added the importance of Pride month.
And for the first time ever, they gave a second invocation. Bastards. I’m calling them on it and recruiting folks to volunteer for giving the first or second invocation.
The two invocations are right at the beginning.
https://www.youtube.com/live/k2B0lxw9Udc?feature=share

BComplex
(9,347 posts)What am I doing wrong?
BComplex
(9,347 posts)ShazzieB
(20,058 posts)When I figured out what the deal was, I started gently nudging the FF ⏩ button to get to shere the meeting actually started.
iwillalwayswonderwhy
(2,694 posts)Eyes wide open, swaying, making faces, reading. Must have cheesed her that your amens were louder than hers.
duhneece
(4,342 posts)She was Chair of Republican Party.
ShazzieB
(20,058 posts)I couldn't help noticing how her fidgetjng accelerated as time went on. She was obviously getting more and more impatient for the first invocation to end so she could do her "real" one! What a piece of work!
Your invocation was lovely, duhneece. Congrats on beating down the red tape and getting in there to do it!
Hekate
(97,014 posts)You wonder how anyone could be so blind these days — well, I take that back. These folks may be part of the backlash going around the country. Or, more benignly, they may have simply always done it this way. The fact that it took legal threats on your part inclines me to think less kind thoughts.
Ask around among your friends for volunteers, but also ask at the Unitarian Universalist Society and synagogue. Any Buddhist or Hindu temples might also have someone who could volunteer on a rotating basis.
I would count it as a victory if you could get them to commit to an inclusive rota of people they can and do call on. Tell the volunteers on the rota to prod the Committee scheduler if they don’t hear back. Let them have their “second invocation” if it makes them happy.
I wish you all the best.
duhneece
(4,342 posts)This is Couy Griffin, founder of Cowboys for Trump, county. There were only 3 Democrats that I’m aware of in the room, counting me.