Gays Complain Over Obama Inauguration

December 18. 2008

President-elect Barack Obama

Once again, homosexuals are complaining. It appears to be their favorite past time. You wear white after Labor Day, they complain. You wear your capris too long, they complain.

President-elect Obama has chosen popular pastor Rick Warren to perform the invocation at his inauguration and the gays are not happy.

Looking at the guest list, I thought it to be a good reflection of colors and cultures. Rick Warren is white, Aretha Franklin is black, Itzhak Perlman is Jewish, Yo-Yo Ma is Asian.

The gays, however, failed to see the diversity. They zoomed in on pastor Rick Warren, the best selling author of the book “The Purpose Driven Life” which has sold 20,000,000 copies.

They are upset because he supported Proposition 8, which banned same sex marriage in California. Therefore, to the gays complaining, this man is automatically to be deprived of a public life, good name, employment and social enjoyment, which is wrong.

President-elect Barack Obama and pastor Rick Warren

Proposition 8 was taken via a proper vote. The gays lost. Some homosexuals then decided to send Proposition 8 supporters vicious death threats, interrupted church services and marred their weddings with boisterous, disruptive protests.

If a straight person did any of those things to gay people, they would scream harassment, persecution, discrimination and a violation of their civil rights

What if a straight person tried to deprive gays of having a public life, good name, employment and social enjoyment, like they are trying to do to Rick Warren. You wouldn’t hear the end of it.

Why can’t they agree to disagree? Warren’s beliefs are not illegal and are shared by billions.

Why can’t you extend others the same courtesy you want for yourselves in not being harassed, hounded, terrorized, mortally threatened, deprived of employment and social enjoyment, for your personal choices.

You know, that’s how Hitler got started. Hitler stood up complaining that he doesn’t agree with blacks, Hispanics, Jews and the disabled, therefore, they are to have no employment, social presence, public life or place in the world.

Obama defends choice of evangelical pastor

WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Barack Obama on Thursday defended his choice of a popular evangelical minister to deliver the invocation at his inauguration, rejecting criticism that it slights gays.

The selection of Pastor Rick Warren brought objections from gay rights advocates, who strongly supported Obama during the election campaign. The advocates are angry over Warren's backing of a California ballot initiative banning gay marriage. That measure was approved by voters last month.

But Obama told reporters in Chicago that America needs to "come together," even when there's disagreement on social issues. "That dialogue is part of what my campaign is all about," he said…

Gay rights advocates say they are troubled that Obama would give Warren such a visible role at his swearing-in. "By inviting Rick Warren to your inauguration, you have tarnished the view that gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans have a place at your table," the letter said.

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Obama: Choice of Warren reflects diversity of ideas

…Warren's support of California's Proposition 8, a measure that outlaws same-sex marriage in the state, sparked the ire of many gay rights proponents earlier this fall.

Warren, who has made it a practice not to endorse candidates or political parties, wrote in October that the issue of gay marriage is not a political issue, but instead "a moral issue that God has spoken clearly about."

"For 5,000 years, every culture and every religion -- not just Christianity -- has defined marriage as a contract between men and women," Warren wrote in a newsletter to his congregation. "There is no reason to change the universal, historical definition of marriage to appease 2 percent of our population."

Warren also stirred controversy earlier this week when he told Beliefnet.com his grounds for opposing same-sex marriage lie primarily on his right of free speech…

"Many believe that Warren ... is the successor to the [Rev. Billy Graham] for the role of America's minister," Time wrote in 2005.

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