With less than a month to go until Inauguration Day, I haven’t heard much local opinionating coming out of Portland (with an exception or two) about Barack Obama’s choice of homophobic Pastor Rick Warren to preach at the Jan. 20 extravaganza in Washington.
How’s this to get the conversation started: I think Obama is totally playing The Gays on this issue. Obama’s goal in choosing Warren is to deliver a message and make a political maneuver. Clearly the message is “hello, Christian conservatives, I am not your enemy.” And as Hanna Rosin suggests, the maneuver may be to put Evangelicals in their place as a token minority of crazies.
Any way you slice it, the outrage over Warren’s choice was completely predictable, and it was also crucial for Obama to make his point.
No one would have paid attention otherwise, and Warren would just have been some guy with a bad goatee holding a Bible.
(Here’s why this all might ring a bell.)
I’m guessing Obama knew the bashing from gays would come. He knew it would not affect him whatsoever, and he actually relied on it in a very calculated way. Ten points to Obama for genius PR, zero to The Gays for being utterly predictable.
What do you think?
While you’re gathering your thoughts, you can watch some folks scream about all this on CNN.
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This is last week’s story, and you’ve said nothing here that hasn’t already been said. A little late on this one…
He bans gays from his church, says gays should have been worked out of the gene pool, and compares gays to child molestors. Clearly, Obama feels bigotry against gays is far more acceptable than bigotry against others is, because if these words were said about any other minority, the guy would not be honored.
So, are you criticizing gays for not just sitting in silence, accepting homophobes as America’s moral leaders, and allowing Rick "man on child" Warren to become the nation’s next Billy Graham?
Maybe a little DIGNITY for Christmas. You claim to value service members and their families, (except the queer ones.) They you tell, wait a few years when it’s EASIER to help you serve openly and honestly, as if your sacrifices and your deaths in battle need to be kept a dirty little secret.
You claim to FIERCELY support equal rights, (except the queer ones) so you allow Warren to SPIT ON me on day one, when I gave more to your campaign than any other, and live on a fixed income.
Democrats will find what could have remained an alliance, will also be missing THE QUEER ONES.
As your HONORED guest preacher Warren gives his Invocation, maybe include a prayer for the openly lesbian woman GANG RAPED by four assailants, then reflect on the HOLLOW PATRONIZING SOUND of Rick Warren’s coining his unoriginal catch phrase…."CHRIST-O-PHOBIA"