What an astonishing, heart-rending, thought-provoking piece of art. May it inspire the world to become a better place.

The Human Rights Campaign today reports that Walt Disney World has appointed George Kalogridis as president.

Kalogridis is openly gay.

Disney consistently ranks as one of the top places to work. For everyone.

“Until you have learned to serve men, how can you serve ghosts?”

— Confucious, Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

“In the end, I couldn’t help feeling that all religion, even the most loving kind, is just a speed bump in the progress of the human race.”

— Jerry DeWitt, Christian preacher turned atheist

“The tears of the red, yellow, black, brown and white man are all the same.”

— Martin H. Fischer, German-born American physician and author

Sarah Eckhardt sided with humanity when she voted against displaying the Christian cross on a governmental seal.

In Travis County, Texas, county commissioners were presented with the opportunity to remove a cross present in the county seal since 1975.

By a 4-1 vote, they decided instead to keep the Christian symbol, and continue to exclude from government people who don’t subscribe to Christian beliefs.

The lone dissenter, Sarah Eckhardt, said, “I think that this presents us with an opportunity to update our seal to something that’s more in keeping up with the changing population and demographic in our county.”

She added: “In 2012, to … put in an implicit preference for Christianity is inappropriate.”

It’s outrageous and hugely unfortunate that her fellow commissioners did not agree with her, instead choosing to once again spit in the eye of humanists and non-Christians, and violate the U.S. Constitution at the same time.