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Rick Warren and the Gay Community: ToMAYto, ToMAHto

Posted by PETE ABEL, Managing Editor in Politics, Religion, Society.
Dec 22nd, 2008 | Comments

Last week, I thought Andrew Sullivan’s post, “Taking Yes for an Answer” — re: the Rick Warren/Obama inauguration debate — would prove to be the definitive post on that subject, after all the dust had settled.

I now think Sullivan has been trumped by the self-dubbed “Hollywood Farm Girl,” in a post titled “the big rick’s yamaka.”

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Manchester2

"Hollywood Farm Girl's" piece was a good read, as was Sullivan's. Thanks for pointing them out. It's not accidental, BTW, that Rick Warren has sometimes been dubbed "America's pastor." This man has a caring heart.

DLS

Well, I haven't had the time lately to be on here*, but take a look at the end of the following story (see link below). Merry Christmas and all that, and see, Santa was good to the Detroit Three and the UAW (not a punt, but a solid three-month handoff to Obama), even though some like Governor Granholm still don't understand and want vast additional moneys from Obama soon to develop the magical electric vehicles that will make the Detroit Three prosper and provide countless (Michigan) "green jobs" and happy customers forevermore. Right.

And now to others, some of whom may actually understand, but don't like what they see in Rick Warren:

The gay and activist overreaction to the Warren choice, when Warren's position on marriage is mainstream, he has gay friends, and he is willing to do the invocation for Obama, whom he invited to speak at his church, even though he obviously disagrees with Obama on the abortion issue, is extreme and silly and disgraceful in and of itself, but the end of the following story may reveal more about the nature of the reaction to this, as a proxy for reaction to other choices Obama has made, as people on here like Chris WWW or Green Dreams would be the first to be able and willing to explain.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122991614255925...

* Pete, I was in STL two weekends ago, but wasn't in shape to visit, in addition to planning only to be there briefly. I felt horrid and ended up having to visit the De Paul Hilton for a few hours -- the big U in action. Fortunately, since then it hasn't made another appearance, yet.

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