It only takes a quick Google search to find out what pro-gay people are feeling about Reverend Rick Warren being asked by Barak Obama to give the invocation at Obama’s inauguration. A few samples of the anger theme: gay rights activists are “fighting mad”, “furious”, having an “angry left meltdown.”
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1208/16693.html
“Your invitation to Reverend Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at your inauguration is a genuine blow to LGBT Americans,” the president of Human Rights Campaign, Joe Solomonese, wrote to Obama Wednesday. “[W]e feel a deep level of disrespect when one of architects and promoters of an anti-gay agenda is given the prominence and the pulpit of your historic nomination.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/19/MN5614QUKR.DTL
The Rev. Amos Brown, head of the San Francisco NAACP, campaigned heavily against Prop. 8.
“I’m very upset. I can understand that Obama wants to be inclusive but not at this moment in his life and the life of this nation. We should be pulling people together. It is most unfortunate. Rick Warren belongs to a conservative evangelical group that is divisive and in some regards mean-spirited.”
http://www.nfmpolitico.com/fox11az/2008/12/17/gay-activists-furious-with-obama/
“His presence on the inauguration stand is a slap in the faces of the millions of GLBT voters who so enthusiastically supported him,” Naff wrote, referring to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people. “This tone-deafness to our concerns must not be tolerated. We have just endured eight years of endless assaults on our dignity and equality from a president beholden to bigoted conservative Christians. The election was supposed to have ended that era. It appears otherwise.”
And then there is Rachel Maddow’s take on the “Rick Warren controversy”:
http://www.insidesocal.com/outinhollywood/2008/12/msnbcs-rachel-maddow-on-warren.html
Rachel Maddow, an openly gay television commentator with her own show on MSNBC, did a commentary last night on the Rick Warren controversy. She points out that Barack Obama “did not invite Warren to his house, he invited him into ours.” she called the decision to have the anti-gay Warren deliver the invocation at the inauguration “the first big mistake of his post-election politicking.
After several days of hearing about this “controversy” I have to say that the very people who want those of us who do not support their views of “marriage” and life style choices are, in fact, some of the least tolerant people, as Keith O would say “In The World!”. The gay activists and TV personalities are so incensed that they stop at nothing, including harsh comments for their guy, Obama. As I ponder this situation, I think that the gay agenda liberals have even gone so far as to bully President-elect Obama. Quite a sad state of affairs and yet very telling. Even Obama is not safe from the viciousness of the intolerant ones.
And in conclusion I share these words from the Brody File:
Let the record now reflect that Barack Obama has angered the liberals before the conservatives. Because he picked pro-life conservative Mega Pastor Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his inauguration, the liberals are reaching for their heart medication and the Pepto-Bismol.
They can’t handle it. It’s driving them crazy.
Filed under: Politics, callmecrusader | Tagged: Amos Brown, Barack Obama, Human Rights Campaign, Inauguration invocation, Joe Solomonese, NAACP, Rachel Maddow, Rick Warren
Barney Frank speaks:
BARNEY BLASTS WARREN: From the AP, per washingtonpost.com: “The first openly gay member of Congress said yesterday that it was a mistake for President-elect Barack Obama to invite the Rev. Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his inauguration.
“Mr. Warren compared same-sex couples to incest. I found that deeply offensive and unfair,” said Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.).”
And Kerry Kennedy, while promoting her new book, said at least 3 times this AM when interviewed on FOX News: having Warren give the inauguration invocation is “inappropriate”.
The war over the one chosen to pray continues.
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It’s amazing. Days later this controversy persists. I must say I can’t help noticing how the media, thriving on being divisive, continues to try to keep this going. ( e.g. Anderson Cooper last night, tentatively and hopefully stating he doesn’t think this is over. )
The Left, The Liberals,The Progressives- pitching a fit and a mega mother of all temper tantrums. And yes all being prodded on by the media.
I enjoyed Warrens prayer- especially the Lord’s Prayer.
I heard a commentator on CNN express that Warren got very little applause when he got up to pray. As if I needed to know that! Which leads me to say that there were a lot of unnecessary comments made by the media yesterday- especially about Mr. Bush. It’s like stick the knife in and give it as many twists as possible. We are to respect Obama but Christian ministers and former Presidents are fair game for piling on with rude comments, booing.
Hope needs to include some civility. I am not seeing it by the media and fervent liberals.