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.
This is Obama totally pandering to the right. He’s made a total misstep with this choice. There were other middle of the road conservatives he could have selected, but he decided to go for this homophobic Christian crazy. I’m very disappointed.
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I don’t agree with Obama’s choice of Warren, and there are definitely a whole lot of folks who would be more appropriate. For what it’s worth though, here’s what Obama said about the choice:
At Thursday’s news conference, Obama recalled that visit. “I was invited to Rick Warren’s church to speak despite his awareness that I held views that are entirely contrary to his when it came to gay and lesbian rights and issues like abortion,” Obama said. “Nevertheless, I had an opportunity to speak. And that dialogue, I think, is part of what my campaign is all about: that we’re not going to agree on every single issue, but what we have to do is be able to create an atmosphere where we can disagree without being disagreeable and then focus on those things that we hold in common as Americans.”
Though I don’t agree with his choice of Warren, I do think he was sincere when he expressed his reasoning. I don’t agree with some things that Obama does but I don’t think he was blowing smoke. I think he believes what he said.
To me this Warren situation is an extension of the frustrations that those of us on the left or more progressive side are bound to face from time to time with Obama. He is admittedly centrist (yuck). I felt pretty crushed when he backed the FISA bill, but when I looked at the entire picture, I like the guy overall as someone who can move us in a better direction. Because let’s face it, if a candidate who fully represented my progressive leanings were ever be elected, he or she would surely be assassinated within 48 hours. Not to mention that a candidate who fully represented my views would never have a shot of getting elected in the first place. Obama isn’t the answer to all that ails us, but I honestly believe that he is pointing us more in the right direction than previous presidents.
That being said, people do have a right to be pissed at this choice.
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I hope it doesn’t seem like I’m being soft on him. I’m just being realistic. Under our current foolish two-party system things are horribly stacked against progressive voters. It usually comes down to which candidate is less anti-progressive. Let’s not forget, that had McCain been elected Pastor John Hagee or worse would have given the invocation. I think the larger discussion that I would like to see, is why do we only have a choice between democrat or republican? Two choices that are way to similar. At this point any third party candidate running is only doing so for symbolic reasons. Obama’s centrist stance prevents him from being as ballsy as I’d like on a lot of things, but our country is still very much a work in progress, with a broken government. Obama is less broken. I think it’s good that people are making noise about some of his missteps, though. It just might keep him honest.
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I completely agree with Marcus’s statements… I don’t necessarily *like* the Warren inauguration, but I do find Obama’s perspective on the issue refreshing and beautiful actually.
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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!
Silently protest Rev Warren at the Inauguration
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I’m all for the silent protest. It’s a great way to support the event and denounce hate at the same time. And if enough people participate it will be an extremely powerful statement. I’ll pass the info along.
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