Thursday, December 18, 2008
Change You Need To Suspend Your Disbelief For
Part I, Wherein Our Hero Selects an Anti-Choice, Anti-Gay Marriage Preacher to Deliver the Invocation at his Inauguration:
Gay leaders furious with Obama
Praise and Criticism for Proposed Interior Secretary
Gay leaders furious with Obama
- Barack ObamaÕs choice of a prominent evangelical minister toÊdeliver the invocation at his inauguration is a conciliatory gesture toward social conservatives who opposed him in November, but it is drawing fierce challenges from a gay rights movement...
Rick Warren, the senior pastor of Saddleback Church in southern California, opposes abortion rights but has taken more liberal stances on the government role in fighting poverty, and backed away from other evangelicalsÕ staunch support for economic conservatism. But itÕs his support for the California constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage that drew the most heated criticism from Democrats Wednesday.
ÒYour invitation to Reverend Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at your inauguration is a genuine blow to LGBT Americans,Ó the president of Human Rights Campaign, Joe Solomonese, wrote Obama Wednesday. Ò[W]e feel a deep level of disrespect when one of architects and promoters of an anti-gay agenda is given the prominence and the pulpit of your historic nomination.Ó
Obama opposes same-sex marriage, but also opposed the California constitutional amendment Warren backed. In selecting Warren, he is choosing to reach out to conservatives on a hot-button social issue, at the cost of antagonizing gay voters who overwhelmingly supported him.
Praise and Criticism for Proposed Interior Secretary
- President-elect Barack ObamaÕs choice to lead the Interior Department, Senator Ken Salazar of Colorado, said on Wednesday that his job would be to try to balance protection of public lands with the continued development of domestic sources of coal, oil and natural gas.
His efforts in the past as a state and federal official to thread the difficult political needle between the environment and energy brought him decidedly mixed reviews from environmental groups on Wednesday, but cautious praise from energy and mining interests.
Environmental advocates offered mixed reviews of Mr. Salazar, 53, a first-term Democratic senator who served as head of ColoradoÕs natural resources department and the stateÕs attorney general. He was not the first choice of environmentalists, who openly pushed the appointment of Representative Raœl M. Grijalva, Democrat of Arizona, who has a strong record as a conservationist.
Oil and mining interests praised Mr. SalazarÕs record as a state official and as a senator, saying that he was not doctrinaire about the use of public lands for resource exploitation. ÒNothing in his record suggests heÕs an ideologue,Ó said Luke Popovich, spokesman for the National Mining Association. ÒHereÕs a man who understands the issues, is open-minded and can see at least two sides of an issue.Ó
Mr. Popovich noted approvingly that Mr. Salazar had tried to engineer a deal in the Senate under which mining companies and others could reclaim abandoned mines without fear of lawsuits. (The legislation is pending.) He also backed a compromise under which oil companies could drill for natural gas in limited parts of the Roan Plateau in northwestern Colorado, a plan that most environmental advocates opposed.
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Obama has said that while he supports civil union he doesn't support gay marraige. When asked if he sign into law that if he was made president he said no. Why is this a surprise and what group is intolerant again? Funny how behind all the semantics you have people who don't want to hear an opposing view but slam the other party for doing the same thing.
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We did our best to get through the grammar of this comment. Sign what into law?
Anyway, we've heard more than enough of the right's opposing views for the last few decades; no American is in any danger of not getting the view from the right. We're all entitled to our own opinions, but only the American Right is entitled to its own facts, history, and reality -- then the rest of us are forced to live with the results of their delusions.
As for the Democratic view, we're trying to remember when Barack Obama told women and gay Democratic voters he'd have a preacher who is anti-choice and anti-gay marriage deliver the invocation at his inauguration.
He must have left that out of his convention speech. Along with the bit about leaving George's Bush's Secretary of Defense in office.
Yes, he sure does tolerate opposing views, this Barack Obama. Like Warren's view that gay marriage is comparable to incest, pedophilic marriage, and polygamy.
Oh, right - Obama is just "reaching out to the other side." We all know how well that's always worked. Heck, Rev. Warren will probably change his mind about all that abortion and gay rights stuff after the inauguration.
And Exxon will design a hybrid car. And Wall Street executives will refund their bonuses.
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Anyway, we've heard more than enough of the right's opposing views for the last few decades; no American is in any danger of not getting the view from the right. We're all entitled to our own opinions, but only the American Right is entitled to its own facts, history, and reality -- then the rest of us are forced to live with the results of their delusions.
As for the Democratic view, we're trying to remember when Barack Obama told women and gay Democratic voters he'd have a preacher who is anti-choice and anti-gay marriage deliver the invocation at his inauguration.
He must have left that out of his convention speech. Along with the bit about leaving George's Bush's Secretary of Defense in office.
Yes, he sure does tolerate opposing views, this Barack Obama. Like Warren's view that gay marriage is comparable to incest, pedophilic marriage, and polygamy.
Oh, right - Obama is just "reaching out to the other side." We all know how well that's always worked. Heck, Rev. Warren will probably change his mind about all that abortion and gay rights stuff after the inauguration.
And Exxon will design a hybrid car. And Wall Street executives will refund their bonuses.
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