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In a few years, when gays are able to legally marry each other everywhere with the full benefits that straight couples are allowed, we will see that the positions held by Mr. Warren and his cult are primitive and bigoted. Just like any other civil rights issue that we as a nation have overcome, this too with appear in the rearview mirror as a wrong that has been corrected.

Obama asks us to come together with those who we disagree with on social issues, and I wonder how it is that we are supposed to do that. Is it not an insult to have those who believe homosexuality can be “fixed” invited as an integral part of a gathering in the name of unity? I’m pretty sure that Rick Warren and his cult members can be fixed–positive in fact–but that’s their business, isn’t it? I’m not going to get on their ass about it; evolution moves quicker in some than others.

Let’s be honest about this: the reason that these people are so afraid of  gay marriage is because some gibberish in a book told them it was wrong. Or because a man in a pulpit read from a book that told them it was wrong, someone like Rick Warren or Jerry Falwell, or maybe even Jeremiah Wright.

Reality proves otherwise. There is no absolute sanctity in marriage–certainly not in hetero marriage; there is only sanctity in a union if they choose to honor it, gay or straight. Get off the high horse unless you want to own Elizabeth Taylor’s eight marriages, you sanctimonious fuckers.

I stand by my original reaction:

I’m all for the unifying nature of Obama’s presidency and the possibilities that that may bring, but I believe that it is incumbent upon certain elements to prove worthy of such outreach. Rick Warren? Not so much.

I’ve had zero problems with the transition moves of Barack Obama, but now Rick Warren? This fucking tool of the religious right is going to give the invocation at his Inauguration? I’d rather he choose Rev. Wright than this chump. I’d rather he choose…well, I can’t think of any religious figure I’d rather he choose. How about None?

I’m all for the unifying nature of Obama’s presidency and the possibilities that that may bring, but I believe that it is incumbent upon certain elements to prove worthy of such outreach. Rick Warren and the gay-baiting religious right are not even close. Fuck. Them. Let ‘em stand out in the desert and wait for their water!

Why is it necessary to inaugurate the President of the United States with a religious nut? Can’t you leave them out of this for once? God, I’m so sick of religion in this country.

UPDATE:

This is what I’m talking about:

Statement by Rea Carey, Executive Director
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force

“President-elect Obama campaigned on a theme of inclusivity, yet the selection of Rick Warren to give the invocation is a direct affront to that very principle. This was a divisive choice, and clearly not one that will help our country come together and heal. We urge President-elect Obama to withdraw his invitation to Rick Warren and instead select a faith leader who embraces fairness, equality and the ideals the president-elect himself has called the nation to uphold.”

Here’s Bill Maher on religion (on Larry King).

Pssst! Barack! Good move!

Imagine how far ahead he’d be if not for this church nonsense. Oh, don’t get me started…

Pssst! Barack! One bit of advice? Stay away from religion! You don’t need it! They’re all a little loose in the screws. They say silly shit. And, as I have been saying all along, they preach “divisive, backward-looking rhetoric.” Rise above it.

Some interesting thoughts from Albert Einstein on god and religion from 1954:

“The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish.”

And like your humble narrator, Einstein, a Jewish man, prefers to see people as equals, not as divided by individual religions:

“And the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than all other people.”

Is such thought even possible in today’s society of warring philosophies and jihads? Does anyone dare entertain it?

Here’s one way to even it all out: everybody is wrong. Nobody has any idea what they are talking about. And no one ever will. It seems more than a bit silly to hold such strong convictions about that which you just don’t know, much less go to war over it. So I am here to assure you: your stories are interesting, but no more factual than any other stories. If that works for you, fine, but don’t think that you’ve cornered the market on faith.

I have faith in the Cubs this year, just like I did last year. See how this works? It doesn’t!

Meanwhile, the Democratic candidate for president has to assure voters that’s he’s not a Muslim; as if the problems of racism aren’t enough in some particularly backward parts of the country.

It is an injustice, a legacy of the racist threads of this nation’s history, but prominent African-Americans are regularly called upon to explain or repudiate what other black Americans have to say, while white public figures are rarely, if ever, handed that burden.

- NY Times Editorial

I have a sneaky feeling that there’s a lot of people who should be repudiatin’ their priest or minister or whatever. Yes, even you White people! Hell, I had a Father bail me out of jail in college, and he later had some sort of “incident” that put him in question, although I never heard how it ended up. Imagine how that’s gonna come back to haunt me when I run for President.