Longview City Mayor Don Jensen, who caved in to a self-described “very comfortable atheist” by ordering an official refrain from invoking Jesus Christ in invocations for City Council meetings, may have inadvertently coined a new phrase: “very comfortable Christians”.
“Jensen told the Kelso-Longview Ministerial Association last month that such prayers were not acceptable because they could expose the city to a lawsuit, The Daily News reported Tuesday. (The Seattle Times, March 6, 2013).
“It’s not my choice to stop this, but I don’t know how we can put our citizens at jeopardy and cost our city and our citizens a lot of money,” said Jensen, who met with the association upon the advice of the city attorney.
