Originally Posted by
Noah Ebner
On the latter point, I guess its the 'flawed past' part that hangs a lot of people up. If this were a man who attended services regularly, who paid any kind of lip service, at the very least, to his Presbyterian background (his own former church had to clarify that he hasn't been an active member since his dad died in 1993), I guess the gesture would be easier to understand? What if he were visiting a mosque or a temple instead? That would pretty clearly be a 'stunt', right? To a non-religious, non-christian person like myself, a Presbyterian visiting an Episcopal church to take a photo outside is not that different. It just seems like a very strange time to do that sort of thing which, for me anyway, makes its hard to disagree with those sympathetic newscasters. Using his personal security force to forcibly move people to go take a photo in front of a building is just not a good look, no matter what the timing or circumstances.