The New Year is so fresh upon us it hasn’t even called for a change of diapers, and what is possibly the best woke joke we’re going to meet in all its remaining days has fallen into the headlines.
A pious congressman, the Rev. Emanuel Cleaver, who was called upon to deliver the prayer for the opening of the 117th Congress, concluded his two-minute invocation with the time-and-liturgically hallowed “Amen.”
But because — as Justin Trudeau might be mindful to remind us — this is 2021, and with every passing year the progressive escalator rises to more giddy heights, the Rev. Mr. Cleaver thought it appropriate to add to his “Amen” an “Awoman.”
Before going any further let’s just tag that the congressman didn’t really cleanse the prayer decks, as he so ignorantly thought he did, of masculinist and sexist overload. For even his ambitious semantics did not take into account that his “Awoman” cradled that tri-letter horror — “man” — he was fleeing from in the first place. So be it. And, so wo-be it.
Cleaver, naturally, was acting under the new and so brightly fashionable Spirit (it needs the capital as it has in the mind of progressive preachers replaced the old “Holy” one) of Inclusion. Invoke inclusion as a motive for any alteration of things as they are, any determined safari into illogic or folly, and it is both a shield and a banner.
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