Comments on: HRC and PFAW Respond To Rick Warren’s Selection For Inaugural Invocation

By: Alan Richard

Alan Richard — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:00:21 +0000

We do need a gay president, but it took a long time and a lot of sacrifice through multiple generations to get an African-American president, and it will take a lot of time to get a gay president too. For now, what we really need is more openly gay candidates for office at every level. Harvey Milk had the right idea: start with where you live and move out from there. Any volunteers?

By: Charles Lanigan

Charles Lanigan — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:05:13 +0000

What we need is a gay president!

By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:01:28 +0000

I don’t think we should be too surprised by this.

When asked about repealing DADT a few months back, Obama said he’d have to consult with people and study the matter.

Study what? Large majorities of the public support repealing DADT, as do majorities of active duty personnel and even Republicans. Seems pretty obvious that repealing DADT would be pretty popular.

But Mr Charisma wants to take his time.

By: Pat

Pat — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:10:56 +0000

Hey all there is a light at the end of the tunnel. The final word (the closing prayer) will be given by Pastor Lowry who is deeply supportive of same sex marriage and who represents our cause and understands us.

Keep this in mind.

That’s a start, Benjamin. But someone like Warren has no business at all delivering the inaugural invocation. It doesn’t erase the poor judgment by Obama to choose this individual.

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:35:54 +0000

Keep this in mind.

By: lurker

lurker — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 07:52:39 +0000

gaysocialites.com posted a good CNN debate on this controversy . . . it rebuts the argument the Obama team is making that “we disagree on policy issues sometimes, but we need to include everyone at the inaguration.”

Two of the speakers in the debate counter-argue that this controversy is NOT about policy disagreements, it’s about Obama singularly honoring a man who says that our relationships are equivelant to beastiality and pedophilia.

at http://gaysocialites.com/2008/12/rick_warren_becomes_topic_of_d.html

By: Bob King

Bob King — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 05:53:40 +0000

Sure we do, Jeff. Well, except for that beard stubble thing.

Point is, gay ain’t the only sort of queer, and that’s a good thing; it swells the ranks.

In fact, if you add up all the various sorts of people that these people think of as being “too queer” – and add in those of us that they haven’t realized they should be paranoid about yet, I think we could have them slightly outnumbered.

By: Patrick ONeill

Patrick ONeill — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 04:03:31 +0000

Thanks for your activism on this – I would like to see it stopped.

I would much prefer Rev. Wright to speak, but we wouldn’t want to offend the bigots.

By: jeff

jeff — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:10:12 +0000

I doubt the letter will do anything. Nobody like us gays.