Is the Creator's Gender in Question?

       Novelist Meg Waite Clayton in an L.A. Times op-ed piece yesterday not only thanked the president for supporting equality for women in his inaugural address, but noted that female pronouns outnumbered male pronouns five to two in the address, "a high point in...inaugural speeches."

       Clayton, therefore, like me, found it jarring to hear "God bless you.  And may He forever bless these United States of America."  Another hurdle?  To degenderize God?  One solution here, simply retain "God" a second time in place of "He."

       Various religious denominations are meeting this challenge, my own Reform Judaism included, and avoiding "Lord" as equivalent to God due to masculine associations, hence  "Sovereign," "Eternal," and so on.  I think it's a worthy project today to not bias the Creator as one sex and not the other.