The Warren Invocation

Obama's appointments to cabinet posts have been fabulous, with record numbers of racial minority appointments, and a 1/3 women...

And I really respect the idea of not cutting communication with people who are not on the same side of issues...that's going to be important both domestically and internationally...so the fact that he went looking for an evangelical person to do an invocation is ok by me, though I think a rabbi would have been a good choice too...but given an evangelical, he could have chosen one who has no respect for the environment and who only is hell bent for "rapture." But instead he chose a person who is working hard to make this place on earth a healthier place. Warren's environmental, HIV, and other charitable leadership is admirable.

But Warren is a segregationist. I doubt Obama would have considered a minister who had on their website that Black people need not come to his church. And yet he has offered this big honor to someone who excludes "unrepentant" gay people from his church. I really wonder if Obama realized this was any deeper than just a disagreement about attitudes about gay marriage? I'd like to think Obama was ignorant, because I would be despondent to think Obama would have made this move knowing what Warran's fuller attitudes on GLBT are.

What I dislike about Warran the most is how he is so ignorant and stereotyping of gay people, referring to bestiality and assuming multiple partners. Heck, I hardly know any gay people who aren't monogamous, though I know a whole lot of straight people who have multiple partners. I recognize Warren is doing some good things in his life with regard to charities, but offering this honor to Warran is a real kick in the teeth to gay and lesbian people.

I'm sure Obama has heard about this by now...I just wish he had invited an evangelical flute choir to march in the parade and had an invocation by a rabbi or a UCC minister...I know he couldn't have invited a Unitarian Universalist--that would have been just too inclusive...

I hope this is the last time Obama is rude to my dear gay friends.