Yes, I agree, yesterday I only wanted to leave this country behind and go towards more tolerant climates. 

Helga

---- Original message ----
>Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:08:38 -0500
>From: Laura Purdy <[log in to unmask]>  
>Subject: Re: Barach Obama and Rick Warren  
>To: [log in to unmask]
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>Believe me, this is perhaps the most dismaying of a whole series of pretty 
>dreadful appointments by Obama. I was not starry-eyed about him before, and 
>know that he no doubt has to make compromises to govern, but this is really 
>beyond the pale. (I have been circulating material on this to local lists, 
>as I suspect many of us are doing.) The homophobia, the sexism, the 
>theocratic world view. Words fail me.
>Laura
>
>
>At 11:49 AM 12/19/2008, Callahan, Joan wrote:
>>Dear Ones,
>>
>>I've not seen anything on this list about Obama's inviting Rev. Rick 
>>Warren to deliver the invocation at the inauguration.  But every LGBT list 
>>I am on is overflowing with responses that run through disappointment, 
>>rage, alarm, to despair.
>>
>>Obama's reason for inviting one of the leaders in the right's successful 
>>support of California's Proposition 8, who has also recently lumped our 
>>relationships in with incest, rape, and pedophilia, is "inclusion."  Can 
>>it be that he really doesn't get that inviting this guy is precisely 
>>analogous to inviting a Klan leader or Neo-Nazi minister to open the 
>>inauguration??  Can those of you who were staunch Obama supporters from 
>>the beginning offer ANY reasonable argument to support this action?
>>
>>I do hope FEAST members are attending to this issue.  Warren's invitation 
>>is perceived as a genuinely devastating blow by everyone I have spoken 
>>with in the queer community.
>>
>>Joan
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