"Gee, maybe Donnie McClurkin wasn't a fluke"

[Truth Teller]

The gay rights movement, bursting with organization and energy in the wake of the passage of Proposition Eight a month and a half ago, may have a new cause: ppposing Rick Warren's role at the inauguration.

John Aravosis, a bit of a leading indicator in these things, is up in arms:

"Gee, maybe Donnie McClurkin wasn't a fluke. Picking Rick Warren to give THE invocation is abominable," he writes.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1208/Warren_backlash.html

[sandnsea]

1. I will be the first to agree

He didn't learn a thing from that incident and maybe I was wrong at the time.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

2. Yup.

It's not just about Warren -- it's about an Obama pattern of blowing off the gay community. :mad:

[mitchtv]

3. Why am I not the least bit suprised

He's lost me

[depakid]

4. Of course it wasn't

Obama pandered to fundies throughout the campaign.

What's going to be interesting is to see how he implements his fiath based initiative(s) and whether discriminatory and anti-sceince groups are allowed access to federal funding.

[stillcool]

5. Not that anyone cares...

but here is the Obama community website to post:

http://change.gov/newsroom/entry/building_the_community_a_guide_to_comments

and this is the email addy for those on the Presidential Inaugural Committee who make decisions regarding the inauguration...
http://inaugural.senate.gov/cmte/

[qwlauren35]

6. No, it wasn't a fluke. Same-sex marriage is NOT part of Obama's agenda.

I'm not understanding why anyone thought that it was?

He and Biden have said, point blank, that they do not support same-sex marriage, but will leave it up to the states, instead of supporting a federal ban or constitutional amendment.

His acceptance of Warren is completely in line with this belief.

I'm really missing it. Is opposition to same-sex marriage the same as saying that gays should be persecuted, beaten, denounced, vilified, etc?

As an African-American, I make no pretense that racism has been eradicated, and I don't get bent out of shape when known racists speak publically. Now, a KKK leader who believes I should be lynched, that would upset me. But someone who doesn't want me to marry white people...

How on earth is this worth getting bent out of shape about?

I don't love confederate flags, or the song Dixie, but I wouldn't stop a Southerner from playing the song during an inauguration if it meant that much to him.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

7. Which one of your rights would you like to give up?

Warren and McClurkin go way past just being anti-gay marriage by the way.

[FreeState]

9. Obama came out against Prop 8 - Warren was involved in passing it - they are not the same agenda n/t

[KamaAina]

10. Would you get bent out of shape if a known racist spoke at a Dem president's inauguration?

presumably not this one. :-)

[Mari333]

11. Rick Warren doing the invocation at Obama's inauguration

is no different then having David Duke being asked to say an invocation at an NAACP rally.
same-o. same-o.
Civil rights is civil rights.
and Obama is wrong about gay marriage. the least he can do is be respectful of the gay community.

[alarimer]

8. Warren is a piece of shit.

And allowing him to do this just legitimizes his crap. As if he didn't make enough money off his snake oil already. He's just another TV-preacher, bigot and a liar.

IF you have to have an invocation (and why in the fucking hell do they have to have one, we are a fucking secular country, you fundagelical idiots can go to hell) there are many others who might be more appropriate.

[TexasObserver]

12. Yes, Rick Warren should have no role in the inauguration.

They can't find one God damned preacher who DOESN'T shit on gays?!

Call U.U., and get a person who loves everyone to say the prayer.

[Fumesucker]

13. But that would hack off the fundagelicals..

Obama can shit on his base because they have no one else to vote for, the fundagelicals on the other hand he treats with care.

I can't say I'm surprised by this since I saw it coming a long time ago, it nevertheless pisses me off and I'm a straight male.