My Mamma Always Told Me to Avoid Religion & Politics

So....in my new job I'm part of the city leadership team. What does that mean exactly?? That means marathon staff meetings every Tuesday - they average 3...yes 3 hours. It also means city council meetings every two weeks and OMG these can take forever....average 4 hours + so we don't get out of there until almost midnight. Well, this city is not like all the other small town Texas cities....it is so far right that they make Glenn Beck look liberal. During the course of the city council meeting this week, I looked around the room and realized I was the only female in the audience...and 1 of 3 women in the room. When they break to go to "executive session" I don't attend those. So the other 2 women left the room....leaving me with the 50 something male posse. I should have walked away....but nope didn't exercise my brain there...major brain fart. I was trying to avoid all the Washington slamming....was trying to avoid the discussion about how our council and city deficit spend. So I entered into a conversation about my kids....of course I didn't stop to think that the conversation I was having was about standing in line to vote and how I was playing devils advocate with my son and arguing the opposite of what his position was regarding the republican propositions. I was relaying the conversation we had about having the 10 commandments and prayer in government buildings during government meetings. I was sharing how I told him that people who weren't Christian might feel disenfranchised and trying to get him to think about separation of church and state. Oh my....who would have thought that trying to make my child an independent thinker would lead to me being called a leftist...virtually a communist. A gentleman not involved in my conversation but eavesdropping piped in to tell me I am what's wrong with our country. That I want to take God out of our country and placate to all these Muslims (btw muslims weren't even my example - I said wiccans and Buddhists). How he was just certain I was proud of my president (mine...not his) for bringing all those ruggers into the white house and having them roll out their prayer rugs. How my president wasn't even recognizing the national day of prayer nor did he have a Christmas tree in the white house. After my initial shock wore off, I was my usual charming self when someone is an ass and showed him the errors of his ways. I asked a friend to help me locate some information and right there on the spot with my trusty blackberry - I showed him the white house tree, showed him how the prayer celebration the muslims had in DC was on the steps of congress and how the right's picture that was attached to the bogus news article was actually Obama outside a mosque in Turkey and how the president was participating in the national day of prayer just not at the white house. He shook his head and stomped off muttering something about technology being the end to us all and my using these made up left wing sources to try to discredit him. Yep....I did a no no....religion and politics. I guess every news source other than FOX is controlled by the left .

Be careful my comrades....you might get red listed reading my rants :)