In a time when the global economy is failing, the American economy is failing, Americans are dying all over the world, the Palestinians and the Israelis continue to bomb themselves to oblivion, some citizens of the United States of America want to take the President to task for including all Americans in his inaugural speech. I am not a constitutional scholar, but, the last time I read the First Amendment, it guaranteed freedom of religion. By extension, does that not also guarantee freedom of no religion?

According to Bishop E.W. Jackson of the Exodus Faith Ministries in Chesapeake, Va., "The overwhelming majority of Americans identify as Christians, and what disturbs me is that he seems to be trying to redefine who we are." It seems that the Bishop needs to acquaint himself with social realities. The majority population of America does identify as Christians. That is a freedom of religious choice. Is the Bishop suggesting that anyone who is not a Christian is not an American? President Obama extended a welcome for all Americans to help fix a nation that is broken. As we have a separation of church and state, is that not the right thing for the President to do?

I adhere to Christian beliefs, but, I certainly do not feel "redefined". The President of the United States is the political leader of the country, Bishop Jackson, not the religious leader.