“Your invitation to Reverend Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at your inauguration is a genuine blow to LGBT Americans,” the president of Human Rights Campaign, Joe Solomonese, wrote to Obama Wednesday. “[W]e feel a deep level of disrespect when one of (sic) architects and promoters of an anti-gay agenda is given the prominence and the pulpit of your historic nomination"....
“It’s a huge mistake,” said California gay rights activist Rick Jacobs, who chairs the state’s Courage Campaign. “He’s really the wrong person to lead the president into office"....
The editor of the Washington Blade, Kevin Naff, called the choice “Obama’s first big mistake.”
“His presence on the inauguration stand is a slap in the faces of the millions of GLBT voters who so enthusiastically supported him,” Naff wrote, referring to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people. “This tone-deafness to our concerns must not be tolerated. We have just endured eight years of endless assaults on our dignity and equality from a president beholden to bigoted conservative Christians. The election was supposed to have ended that era. It appears otherwise.”
Apparently, Obama's guilt by association, which conservatives flung at him during the presidential campaign, is still a fair game tactic, this time flung by liberals. What's also interesting is that the gay activists use the same language of oppression that Blacks invented in their struggle to gain equal rights, but this time used against a Black man. This episode also shows the continued intolerance by gay activists against religion, because conservative Christianity will not condone sexual acts between gay and lesbian couples.
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Gay leaders furious with Obama
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