The Boston Marathon Bombing service, how would you feel if you'd been excluded because of your belief system?

Today, there was an community gathering in Boston meant to begin the healing process for our city. Members of the Catholic church, numerous Protestant denominations, Jewish rabbis and Islamic clerics were all invited to speak. Yet despite numerous requests to the event organizers to be included, nobody from the “no religious affiliation” portion of our community was allowed to speak. Greg M. Epstein, the Humanist Chaplain at Harvard University and numerous other members of the secular humanists societies of Boston were refused a place at the podium. When 19.6% of the nation classify themselves as having no religious affiliation, this seems unfair and wrong headed to me.

I will think about it the next time I hear some Christian (part of a group that still comprises 73% of the US population) whine that they are so discriminated against. How would you feel if your belief system had been told they could not be party to the gathering?