The Choice Is Ours Now

Melissa Etheridge offers some great insight here. It appears, from what she says, that Rick Warren is no Jerry Fallwell or Ted Haggard. He at least seems to have some respect for his fellow human beings who happen to be gay.

And her cries for peace are particularly moving. We could refuse to dialog with the Rick Warrens of the world, but where would that get us? We could write him off, ignore him and those who think like him, but how we would progress?

I'm impressed with what Ms. Etherige says here. If we really want to change the world, we better be willing to open up to those who oppose us, rather than write them off.
This does not mean that Obama made a good choice in picking Warren to lead the prayer on Jan. 20th, I don't think that was a wise or thoughtful choice, but it is to say that Rick Warren must be engaged with not merely ingored or dismissed.

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Rick Warren is worse than we thought!

If Obama really is the "fierce advocate of gay and lesbian rights" that he claims he is, then he ought to rescind his invitation of Pastor Warren.

We know already that Warren opposes gay marriage and equates it with pedophilia and incest, but apparently "unrepentant gays" are not permitted to attend his church! And that is not even the worst of it! Watch the video and you'll see what I mean:

Obama defends picking Pastor Warren ... and his defense seems right!!

Here Obama defends his pick of Pastor Warren:



I think what Obama says makes a lot of sense. He's not advocating Warren's views. He is trying to establish unity and dialog; he is trying to be "everyone's president."

I think my earlier post about this reflected a knee-jerk liberal bias on my part. I'm now back to my "guarded optimism" about Obama.

Nevertheless, I'm still wary of some of Obama's choices and picks. But time will tell how this all plays out.

Rick Warren, Obama Invocation Choice, Causing First Real Rift With Progressives

I find this story very disturbing. Not that Rick Warren is a villain - far from it. But an Evangelical pastor leading the invocation??!!! I give up. Obama is just a right-leaning centrist Democrat . .. or at least that is how he appears to plan to govern.

All the progressive rhetoric is gone. Is this "change we can believe in"? Surrounding himself with hawks, Washington insiders, some of Bush's people, and evangelical pastors?! What is this?!!! This is not what I voted for.
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