A goatee??????
I mean...come on...every picture of the devil that I've ever seen clearly shows Lucifer with a goatee...
I'm just sayin'.
We don't even know about any possible tats.
As an agnostic, what I wonder is this: Why an invocation? This tempest in a teapot could have been so easily avoided by simply not inviting any clergy to what is, essentially and fundamentally, a civil ceremony. There's a reason for separation between Church and State...and I'm hoping that even a former professor of Constitutional Law like Obama has a better grasp on that issue now.
Keep your religion locked up in the attic, and slip a food tray under the door to it every morning. Don't parade it it out in public...nothing good can come from that.
I know...I know...we Dems need to "become more in tuned with our 'spiritual side'" Stop stuttering over the word "GOD". Show some cursary familiarity with at least the New Testament. Shed ourselves of the intinsic dread of handling snakes, speaking in tongues in public, falling backwards when an Evangelical preacher touches our foreheads. We should at least allow for the POSSIBILITY that water can be turned into wine, and not scoff at the notion that a wooden staff can be transformed into a venemous serpent.
I work upon these points every day.
To no avail.