Obama Blows It!

Rick Warren is a religious hustler.  He runs a mega-church out in Lake Forest, California called The Saddleback Church from which he preaches his self indulgent Gospel.   Having written a 30 million copy best seller "The Purpose Driven Life" that is second in sales only to the Bible, he was thrust into the national limelight.   From there he has been on a quest to be the next Billy Graham.   The only problem is that he really has the potential to be the next Jerry Falwell with whom he shares an uncanny likeness.

What makes the guy so creepy, besides the fact that he is a religious hustler, is that his right wing opinions are of the sort that if there was a God he would be struck down on the spot.   First of all he is against gay marriage.  Compounding this, in a recent interview he said "you wouldn't want an older man marrying a child or a man marrying a horse".   Imagine that, equating being gay with pedophilia and bestiality.   That's good 'ol Rick for you.  Add to this his allegiance to creationism which amounts to scientific stupidity and his stand against a woman's right to choose.  In short, he's a fuckin' sleezebag to anyone who feels that he and his beliefs are totally immoral.

If Rick Warren did his thing and kept to himself and his flocked sheep, then I suppose that is something between them.   But he is now inflicting himself on Americans like you and me.   During the election he hosted and moderated an evening with Barack Obama and John McCain.

It wasn't a debate.  Each candidate sat with Warren individually.  How he got this coup is beyond me as I have always believed that there is supposed to be a separation between church and state.

Now this whole scenario has taken an ugly turn.  President-Elect Obama on December 17th asked him to give the invocation at the inauguration.   What the hell was Obama thinking?  Is he nuts?   It's bad enough that religion has a place at a federal function but to invite a homophobe-creationist to give the invocation makes you begin to wonder if Obama is really this other person than the one we voted for.

Obama claims that he always said he wanted to be the President of all Americans and to seek inclusion of everyone.   Does this then include the KKK or the American Nazi Party?  Of course not because they are intolerant of others just like Rick Warren.

Gay groups feel betrayed and justly so.  People like myself are having second thoughts about the guy and he hasn't even taken office.

In California Proposition 8, the anti gay marriage measure, went down to defeat.   Many feel the reason it did was the black vote which was higher than usual due to Obama's candidacy. It was said that 69% of the black voters voted against gay marriage thus putting the measure over the top.  The reason given was the high church going among blacks, couple this with a general prejudice by black males against gay men.

I'm not saying that all this is necessarily true.  But if so, then Obama comes into this category of a church going black male who by the way has said he's against gay marriage.   That is probably the reason why he sees nothing wrong with Rick Warren.

Obama should really rethink this thing.   He's getting off to a bad start with the very people who cared about him.   This was a disastrous decision  on his part and if he can make such a bone-headed move like this so early on, what's going to happen when he has the power.

I'd hate to think that we've been fooled again!