now that card-carrying, scum-sucking, right-wing-anti-choice, filled-with-hate pure-D homophobic rick warren has been chosen to deliver the invocation at obama’s inauguration, i wonder who’s gonna represent for the white supremacists? this shingdig being so fucking inclusionary and all.
we knew obama wasn’t in favor of gay marriage. we saw that he didn’t support us in killing Prop8. but, until now, i didn’t realize that obama really has it in for the gays. i mean, like, as in hatred. can he really hate the queer community? if he doesn’t, how the hell could he have agreed to giving this miserable eliminationist a position of honor and authority at the swearing in?
wasn’t so long ago that interracial marriage was illegal in most of the united states. if it had stayed that way, obama would either be a bastard child or never been born at all. so, you got your rights, barrie — you got good old aretha, one of the greatest civil rights artists of our generation, to sing at your party. i absolutely don’t understand how you justify putting her on the same stage as this hatemonger. how you justify getting on the stage with him yourself.
perhaps aretha will decline to perform under these circumstances. perhaps we can all encourage her to do so.
is it that now, since black civil rights seem — with your election — to be pretty much a done deal, the struggle for civil rights is over? you think it’s all good now, no more work to be done, and fuck those queers anyway, they are “not natural and not to be tolerated” as your good buddy rick warren says.
it’s not to late to fix this — not if you are REALLY about change. why don’t you get rid of warren and invite one of these progressives to deliver the invocation instead:
the dalai lama (after all, this is not a christian nation, right? RIGHT?)
rabbi irwin kula (ditto)
only one of these suggested choices is, as far as i know, gay. these are balanced, enlightened, progressive and deeply spiritual human beings. they are all about change, just as you claim to be.
wouldn’t you rather have one of these at your side than a venomous and narrow-minded self-acclaimed hater of one out of every seven americans?
shame on you, president obama, if you allow the rick warren selection to stand. just shame on you. and a huge disappointment — perhaps even our first disillusionment with your leadership — in this community. one that is unlikely to be forgotten.
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The guy is big with the right wing, and just because they lost the election, it does not mean the right is no longer there (a mistake Bush made about the left). This is Obama’s way of reaching out to the right. It isn’t a good thing, but I think that comes with the territory. You don’t make peace with your friends, you make it with your enemies.
I’m not going to write off Obama yet.
Obama’s idealism is to be praised, but in this case what does it advance? Warren is still going to be a homophobe seeking to strip the GLBTQ community of its civil and human rights but with greater authority thanks to Obama’s complicity.
I think Obama made the right choice. Rick Warren is a representative of where this country needs to go. Perhaps there is hope for our country after all. God bless Barack Obama as he undertakes a task that few of us, if we really thought about it, would want to be responsible for. Oh, and God Bless Rick Warren too!
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