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