Given all this, you’ll forgive me for rolling my eyes if you say calling your minority leader “pastor” is too much to ask. Neither is sitting in lament while hearing a hard message on historical racism instead of charging the pulpit to argue with the minority preacher as soon as he says, “Amen.” Lifting your hands past your shoulders may cut against the grain of your Presbyterian upbringing, but if it green-lights the minority person sitting a few seats down to freely worship the way they’re culturally conditioned, then this is a form of Zacchaen restitution.
