Homobigot Ricky Warren to Lead Us in Prayer

So Obama wants homophobic bigot Rick Warren to give the invocation at the beginning of his inauguration. Rick Warren. The slime ball who along with the LDS played a major role in taking away the civil rights of LGBT persons in America. Rick Warren is the money grabbing, slick, car salesman, I mean televangelist style preacher who equates homosexuality to pedophilia, incest and bestiality. The Rick Warren who thinks it's OK to use all his power and money to make us second-class citizens because he "loves us" and feeds us donuts when we protest at his big bucks mega church. Oh yeah, and he has gay friends and even lowers himself to eat at their house with them! Note the dripping sarcasm in the last statements.

Changing the subject for a moment, I really want to know who these gay people are that seem to always be friends with homophobes. Just about all homophobes have them. Every one of the slimy bigots claim to have gay friends. The bigots love them. They eat with them. They have conversations with them and pray for them, but the bigots never seem to produce them. We just hear about them as the bigots get up to proclaim our abomination and call us names and take away our rights. If these gay friends of bigots really exist, then someone should sit them down and have a stern talk with them.

I'm tired of hearing, "You can't call me homophobic because I have gay friends."

And I always want to answer, "Yes you are a homophobe, and I sincerely doubt that any gay person would call you a friend!"

OK, back to the subject of LGBT's and others being thrown under the Obama bus of change. (It looks like more of the same.)

I've actually waited to start posting on this until today because I was so disappointed that I thought I would end up posting way too much vitriol. I wanted to see the reaction of others as well. Maybe I should have waited a little longer because there still seems to be a lot of vitriol left. I am more disappointed and outraged than I thought I would be. After the Donnie McClurkin debacle I really had serious questions about Obama's words of hope for equality for LGBT's, but I listened to Obama and let him convince me that he meant what he said.

Maybe he does, but he sure has a funny way of showing it. He claims to be on our side but he then he sits down and associates himself with our opponents and oppressors. Obama claims he wants equality for LGBTs and then gives the bigots a platform to spew their hatred of us. There were many people who warned us of the possibility of this happening. Many said that as soon as Obama got what he wanted (elected president) he would lurch to the center and throw the progressives and the LGBTs under the bus. Is this happening even before he gets into office? (checking my back in the mirror) Yep, I'm pretty sure I see tire marks there.

As soon as I heard about Bigot Warren giving the invocation I wrote to the Obama team telling them of my disappointment. This is what I had to say:

To Whom It May Concern:

I am writing this letter to express my disappointment and outrage at the choice of the homophobic pastor Rick Warren to perform the invocation for President Elect Obama January 20, 2009. This decision is a slap in the face to all of us who listened to Mr. Obama's words of hope and change. This is not change. This is truly more of the same that we have endured for the last eight years and more.

This is truly a poor choice for inclusion. This pastor stands for divisiveness and homophobia. This man publicly equated LGBT people to pedophiles.This man believes that women should not have control over their own bodies. He believes the federal government should be in our wombs, our bedrooms and every other aspect of our lives. He believes stem cell research should be outlawed. He does not believe in the separation of church and state, and he believes the only church that should matter to government is evangelical Christians. Pastor Warren represents all that is bad in the last eight years, and now Mr. Obama wants to allow him the bully pulpit to spew his bigotry at his own inauguration?

This action disappoints me in more ways than I have the time or room to write. I am now sitting here wondering why exactly I believed Mr. Obama's promises and wondering why I voted for him. Is Mr. Obama just another crooked politician willing to say anything to get himself elected only to break those promises and turn his back on his followers and those who believed in his words once he has what he wants? This choice he has made of Pastor Warren makes me wonder. I gave Mr. Obama the benefit of the doubt when he made the terrible choice of letting Donnie McClurkin up on his stage in South Carolina to spew his bigotry and homophobia. Donnie McClurkin was a really bad decision. This one about Pastor Warren is much much worse. This provides Pastor Warren a much wider audience to spew his hate and bigotry. It also causes many of Mr. Obama's followers to wonder if we have been cast aside now that he has been elected.

I will be writing about this terrible decision on my blog in the coming days. I will be urging Mr. Obama to change his mind on this terrible course of action. And if Mr. Obama chooses not to change his mind, I will be urging everyone who is present at the inauguration to rise and turn their backs to Pastor Warren during the invocation as a silent protest and a rejection of his homophobia and bigotry.

Now I will end this letter so I can go and (figuratively) clean off the tire marks on my back where I have been thrown under the Obama bus.

Sincerely,

If you wish to write to express your displeasure, then use the emails below.

Parag Mehta is Obama's LGBT liaison on the transition team - parag.mehta@ptt.gov.

This is another email that will get back to the Obama team:
emmett@pic2009.org

There is commentary about this terrible decision all over the web as well as the MSM. I probably will be posting some of the comments and letters to Obama and his team in the coming hours and days. You will probably see some video as well. As I said, this is definitely being discussed everywhere. However, I think I will end this post with the statement from Congressman Barney Frank. It is a good statement and I agree with it completely:

STATEMENT OF CONGRESSMAN FRANK ON PRESIDENT ELECT OBAMA CHOOSING RICK WARREN TO GIVE INAUGURATION INVOCATION

"I am very disappointed by President-elect Barack Obama's decision to honor Reverend Rick Warren with a prominent role in his inauguration. Religious leaders obviously have every right to speak out in opposition to anti-discrimination measures, even in the degrading terms that Rev. Warren has used with regard to same-sex marriage. But that does not confer upon them the right to a place of honor in the inauguration ceremony of a president whose stated commitment to LGBT rights won him the strong support of the great majority of those who support that cause.

"It is irrelevant that Rev. Warren invited Senator Obama to address his congregation, since he extended an equal invitation to Senator McCain. Furthermore, the President-Elect has not simply invited Rev. Warren to give a speech as part of a series in which various views are presented. The selection of a member of the clergy to occupy this uniquely elevated position has always been considered a mark of respect and approval by those who are being inaugurated."