He’s not even in office yet and President-elect Obama has managed to tick me off. I don’t like Rick Warren. His views on gay marriage - plain and simply ignorant. I wrote about him before in “the Flush” – go to the search feature on the top left to read more. Why in the hell is Obama picking this loon (I once called him a “domestic terrorist”) to deliver the invocation at his inauguration?
Obama has a lousy record of choosing pastors and this is clearly no exception. We all recall the (Rev.) Jeremiah Wright. Obama says he chose Warren for reasons of inclusion. Inclusion? It’s more like discrimination to me. With “friends” like Warren, you sure as hell don’t need enemies. Besides, Obama is playing at both ends – one minute, in one of his “feel good” speeches, he includes gays as one of the “gang”, then he turns around and disrespects them by choosing Warren. So here we go. I was going (trying I should say) to wait until after Obama gets in office to get involved, but I just can’t sit by and not comment on this mistake.
And why, again, do I support gays? Because you, we – whatever – CANNOT – discriminate against anyone in this country by making it "illegal" for one individual (man or women) to marry another person (man or women). It's prejudice. It's just not right. I’ve said many times - I’ve been married 30 years, and a gay couple that wishes to get married presents NO threat to me, my wife or the “institution” of marriage. I also firmly believe that since Jesus was an iconoclast (look it up) he wouldn’t have a problem with it either. Besides, who the hell is Warren? Why would anyone listen to him? This totally mystifies me. Watch this CNN debate on the issue:
