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Meet the new boss....?
My spouse and I got married in San Francisco in October, with such hope. The hope is continuing to fade tonight.
As a white lesbian, I do NOT think you can "equate" the black civil rights movement to the gay one. We've never been bought and sold, enslaved, or forced to sit on the back of the bus! I don't think we get anywhere by trying to say our movements are "the same." I HATE when white gays do that....
But, Lowery is a huge gay rights supporter!
But too many people in the U.S. point to financially well-off gays and think they need no civil rights because they have some money. They haven't SUFFERED enought for us to give them a prize.
How about two thousand years of being burned at the stake? Does that count? Or is that okay, because those doing the burning were acting out of "deeply held religious beliefs"?
See:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/12/17/19...
You fooled yourself and you refused to listen! Now we're stuck with Obama and he frankly doesn't give a shit because now your opinion is as irrelevant to him as it was to me in the primaries! I lost what little respect I had for you and the rest of the completely insane obamaheads during the primaries. Now frankly I'm enjoying watching all of your heads explode as you realize Obama is "shock" a politician that used you and you were too freaking stupid to realize it! You are the real loser, and unfortunately you helped make sure America would lose with you! Good job! You're now not very different from those that enabled GWB to come to office out of your blindness and willingness to ignore the 'facts' about Your Guy!
All of the rest of us that are now 'stuck' with 'your' choice can do is hope he does a better job than GWB - that shouldn't be too hard - and enjoy watching your heads explode as you realize you were duped!
Hahahaha. You're funny.
What's the Matter With Rick Warren?
"Warren represents the absolute worst of the Democrats' religious outreach, a right-winger masquerading as a do-gooder anointed as the arbiter of what it means to be faithful. Obama's religious outreach was intended, supposedly, to make religious voters more comfortable with him and feel included in the Democratic Party. But that outreach now has come at the expense of other people's comfort and inclusion, at an event meant to mark a turning point away from divisive politics. "
Can anyone explain to me why having Rick Warren is any different than having a preacher from a "christian identity" church speak? Might as well let Reverend Phelps give the damn thing.
I am going to HOPE Obama will repeal DADT, make adding lgbt to hate crimes legislation, ENDA, helping to remove DOMA. If he does these things I'll be ok but if Rick Warren is a sign of things to come then cry havok and let slip the dogs of war.
A few minutes ago I fired up Safari and started checking out my regular blog reads for the night. I read this post first and then some recommended diaries over at The Daily Kos. Jeez. Bummer. I just had to come back here and leave this comment.
In my opinion you are so right on target about this Rick Warren controversy and that whole group of jackasses trying to downplay this insulting turn of events is so painfully Missing. The. Fucking. Point.
They all wannabe "voices of reason and leadership" for the netroots community and so they're dredging up paper thin arguments giving Obama cover on this thing. But, there is no morally good argument for why this invite is O.K. Plus, Obama gets what Obama wants. He doesn't want or deserve cover.
Thanks for opening my eyes a little bit wider. And I sure hope you prevail in getting your message out there.
Obviously he can't disinvite Warren; that would be giving in to the Homosexual Terrorists (c.f. Pat Boone, Chuck Norris, WingNutDaily)
And when he doesn't, the Religious Right will feel all warm and fuzzy about how Obama stood up to the locust storm of the Crazy Liberal Bloggers (c.f. Lieberman) and the Homosexual Terrorists.
http://my.barackobama.com/page/group/StopRickWa...
It suggests that Obama was not in charge of the decision, which flies in the face of all that we know about him, and credits DiFi with far more than she's capable. I realize it was satire, but for me it lacks the necessary, incisive, sardonic twist.
At the risk of pissing of one of my favorite bloggers, I hope you'll read this:
http://tinylittledots.com/wordpress/2008/12/17/...
It's a possibility...
And to all who belong to 'accepting and welcoming' churches, I salute you, but you are the minority so my 'in general' statement stands.
Thank you
As much as I appreciate you, John. You were wrong about her. Gotcha.
Bullshit. This stuff has consequences people. People get lives ruined, die, become killers, make matters worse, etc. as a result.
They've had their turn, and screwed the pooch in technicolor. Fucked up everything. The time has come to stop pretending dogshit is as valuable as a diamond.
Hate politics, NO MORE
discrimination of human beings: NO MORE
using terror, in the form of armys that kill, oppress populations; NO MORE (in our name)
pretening ALL sides are valid: NO MORE
checking results of policy honestly and evaluating: TIME HAS COME
listening to PEOPLE: TIME HAS COME
No more free rides for Obama. Let's try not to micro-observe where every movement or tic means something, but on the other hand, his choices will have consequences.
All leaders live in bubbles. Bush's was smoked glass he couldn't even see out of, lets hope Obamas is transparent so he can at least see the reaction to his choices.