It was quite a surprise to see pro-equality Barack Obama select the Reverend Rick Warren to give the invocation at his inauguration. The Rev. Rick Warren, of course, is the pastor who equated same sex marriage with incest and pedophilia. I know in my heart Obama is right, different views can be unifying. So following in that spirit and Obama’s call for a day of community service on Inauguration Day, I will be donating on line to both my local marriage rights organization at www.massequality.org and to the California marriage rights organization at: www.eqca.org and make these donations in honor of Rick Warren.
I hope you will join me with me on January 20th in supporting Equality. Together we can prove that different views can be unifying! Together we can prove that different views can be unifying! Then let’s CELEBRATE!!! Go Obama!!!
I hope this is a pun. IE Obama made the WRONG choice with Rick Warren and because of that, the conversation of equality for LGBT has escalated and this has “unified” the LGBT community and allies a bit more.
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p>I hope you don’t buy into that “we need all voices at the table bulls**t.”
Giving the Invocation at the Inauguration for the President of the United States of America is an honor. This honor is best reserved for Americans who inspire us and elevate us. To bestow such an honor on Rick Warren, who has publicly opposed freedom and equal rights for some Americans is disappointing. It is not a free society when only some are equal. Rick Warren’s positions make us all less free.
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p>Discussing your differences is diplomacy.
When a driver bumped the rear of my car on the Fresh Pond Pkwy last year, I got out and spoke with him and exchanged information and we both productively went on with our lives.
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p>If I got out of my car, shot him and then went to his families home and bulldozed it, that would be unproductive. Certainly though, he was not my choice for safer driver of the year…maybe Boston driver of the year?