Comments on: How the Inauguration Team Views “LGBT Interests”

By: Attmay

Attmay — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 07:13:53 +0000

We were already under the bus as soon as he had Donnie McClurkin sing at his rally in South Carolina. You didn’t know that?

By: AJD

AJD — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 01:25:21 +0000

My main reason for voting for Obama was that I didn’t want an extension of the Bush Administration. I sort of anticipated that Obama would pull this kind of crap, but it’s still disappointed. Anyway, I’ve been a registered independent since I registered to vote at age 18.

By: ObamaSupporterNoMore

ObamaSupporterNoMore — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 00:38:01 +0000

The Obama team is now using this gay marching band to rationalize their false inclusiveness. In light of Obama promoting Warren internationally through the inauguration, this band should pull out of the inauguration. Obama is throwing us under the bus with the calculation that gay voters have nowhere to go. I donated, supported, and voted for Obama. I’m fed up with this Democrats-as-usual treatment of GLBT voters. Monday I switch my affiliation to Independent and urge every GLBT voter, abortion rights voter, etc. to do the same.

By: Dennis Veite

Dennis Veite — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:11:36 +0000

@Mark F: Me too. I vote for Hillary in the primaries and there was no way in hell I was voting for Obama. He’s a sleazeball just like McCain.

By: Dennis Veite

Dennis Veite — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:09:09 +0000

Hi true colors are showing through brightly!

By: thomas

thomas — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:54:33 +0000

I think God is sick of Warren’s hate filled life.

By: MR Bill

MR Bill — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:34:53 +0000

I, for one, hate a parade.
Anytime I see a bunch of people marching in one direction, I have the urge to go the other way.
And if they are running, panicked, I leave tangent to their path..
The choice of Warren hurt. But then, if give Obama cover to actually do something positive for the GLBT community, I guess I can suck it up one more time..
But I ain’t happy.

And what(besides the emails I’ve sent) can we do here? Organize, yeah, but this is being spread in the media “those nasty gays don’t want ‘America’s Preacher’ (registered trademark) to be at Obama’s love in. Warren’s odious conduct in the Prop 8 debacle is just not getting much play.
We’re loosing the public relations war if we play this way it’s been going.

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Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:41:42 +0000

[...] of the Lesbian and Gay Band Association are going to have to stand there politely and listen to Rick Warren, who thinks their having the [...]

By: JT

JT — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:05:21 +0000

@ David C.: It could work the other way. Obama has an anti-gay man as part of his inauguration ceremony, and the anti-gay idiots (perhaps even the violent ones) are emboldened and step up their obnoxious and dangerous behaviors. Sigh.

I’d love to see the LGBT marching band march silently in protest. I do not think we are overreacting to this issue. Including a pinch of poison in a recipe does not make it “inclusive”, rather it ruins everything.

By: AdrianT

AdrianT — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:52:18 +0000

Spot on Timothy. And I hope LGBT Americans make their disgust known dusing the ceremony quite frankly.