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