And why I am at the end of mine...Why has O picked Rick Warren, the Evangelist-Intolerant-Extraordinaire to give the invocation at Obama's inauguration? What the fuck?
This is Obama's second choice that inclines me to question his judgment as well as his position on basic human rights for Gay an Lesbian persons. I'm all for inclusion, though my personal preference is a trip to the woodshed, as Obama espouses support for the GLBT. I'm more appalled by this choice than by Ken Salazar for Interior. Where is the civility, the balance, the Left in O's cabinet decisions?
Another nail in the coffin of the democrats spineless response to what is right and fair. The Human Rights Campaign, a LGBT advocacy group has written an open letter to Obama about his choice being not only insensitive, but dangerous.
Let me get right to the point. Your invitation to Reverend Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at your inauguration is a genuine blow to LGBT Americans. Our loss in California over the passage of Proposition 8 which stripped loving, committed same-sex couples of their given legal right to marry is the greatest loss our community has faced in 40 years. And by inviting Rick Warren to your inauguration, you have tarnished the view that gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans have a place at your table.
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So I get the problem with Warren, because frankly it feels like Obama is kind of throwing us gays under the bus. But what's the problem with Salazar?
Check the linky on "Death by Chocolate." The crux of thge problem being he's too freindly with mining, energy and agra-biz to make the changes need at the Dept. of Interior.
Maybe we could do without an invocation? It's simply amazing that almost every extended family knows that one of the things you try not to talk about at family gatherings is religion, and yet every politician seems to want to put it front and center these days. Did the state of Washington's little experience with religious diversity (and the resulting intolerance) teach us nothing?
Couldn't we just listen to the new President's speech and then move on to the inevitable disappointment without all this nonsense?
Obama has already won the election, so his pandering seems unnecessary. Unless,
[1] He is the same person who, pre-election, could brook 20 years of Rev. Wright's vituperative; or
[2] Obama has his finger on the pulse of the average American. As he is neither a stupid man nor does he seem disingenuous, that would finger both of these as possible explanations.
I was amazed that Warren oversaw a presidential debate. It seems that during any nation's twilight, the citizens seek succor in medieval ethnocentrisms. . .
BTW, regarding Warren...after Melissa Etheridge met with him (yes she did go there), her wife revised her reaction to him somewhat. You can access her blog from my blog via "hollywood farm girl".
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