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Gay activists furious with Obama
The Politico ^

Posted on 12/17/2008 4:31:58 PM PST by Sub-Driver

Gay activists furious with Obama By: Ben Smith and Nia-Malika Henderson December 17, 2008 06:32 PM EST

Barack Obama’s choice of a prominent evangelical minister to perform 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 that – in the wake of a gay marriage ban in California – is looking for a fight.

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 evangelicals’ staunch support for economic conservatism. But it’s his support for the California constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage that drew the most heated criticism from Democrats Wednesday.

“Your invitation to Reverend Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at your inauguration is a genuine blow to LGBT Americans,” the president of Human Rights Campaign, Joe Solomonese, wrote Obama Wednesday. “[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.”

The rapid, angry reaction from a range of gay activists comes as the gay rights movement looks for an opportunity to flex its political muscle. Last summer gay groups complained, but were rebuffed by Obama, when an “ex-gay” singer led Obama’s rallies in South Carolina. And many were shocked last month when voters approved the California ban.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: bho2008; bhoinauguration; fabulous; gaystapo; hissyfit; homosexualagenda; obamainaguration; perverts; prop8; proposition8; queerlybeloved; rickwarren; thatsprecious
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1 posted on 12/17/2008 4:31:59 PM PST by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

LOL the homo’s are taking a right beating lately.

This is just great,

what is it

ah yes change we can believe in

have you got that homo’s?

change you never thought LOL


2 posted on 12/17/2008 4:35:02 PM PST by manc (Marriage is between a man and a woman no sick MA,CT sham marriage end racism end affirmative action)
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To: Sub-Driver
Since his election to the position of President Elect, Obama has shown increasingly that he may be (emphasis on "may be") a pure old fashioned opportunist.

He has betrayed the hard-core left most of all.

Does that mean that conservatives can still hope? I dunno.

3 posted on 12/17/2008 4:36:16 PM PST by SonOfDarkSkies
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To: Sub-Driver

Disagreement is not allowed. You’d think Obama would know that by now.

By the way, they knew Obama’s stance on gay marriage didn’t they?


4 posted on 12/17/2008 4:37:07 PM PST by Lorianne
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To: Sub-Driver
"Gay activists furious with Obama"

Honestly now. Is there anyone abominable sodomites are not "furious" with?

5 posted on 12/17/2008 4:37:11 PM PST by The Anti-One (So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Touchy fags.


6 posted on 12/17/2008 4:37:36 PM PST by Batrachian
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

we can watch the radical left and homo’s get all their knickers in a twist


7 posted on 12/17/2008 4:37:45 PM PST by manc (Marriage is between a man and a woman no sick MA,CT sham marriage end racism end affirmative action)
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To: Sub-Driver
Trannies claim to be women trapped in men's bodies or vice-versa.

IMHO, the entire LBGT "community" are a bunch of brown-shirts trapped in rainbow attire.

8 posted on 12/17/2008 4:38:21 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear (The cosmos is about the smallest hole a man can stick his head in. - Chesterton)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies
Does that mean that conservatives can still hope? I dunno.

I personally dont have much use for Warren, another man of the cloth looking for a guvvie handout.

9 posted on 12/17/2008 4:38:44 PM PST by Nonstatist
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To: SonOfDarkSkies
BTW, the most we could hope for is that Obama might turn out to be a pragmatist that would benignly react to events instead of trying to implement a socialist agenda.

That said, I will fear him as a possible Manchurian candidate until his last day in office.

10 posted on 12/17/2008 4:39:26 PM PST by SonOfDarkSkies
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To: Sub-Driver
I LOVE IT! Nothing so much pleases me as seeing the queerly beloved get angry at Rick Warren over his endorsement of Proposition 8! BRING IT ON!!!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

11 posted on 12/17/2008 4:39:30 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

we can watch the radical left and homo’s get all their knickers in a twist


12 posted on 12/17/2008 4:40:17 PM PST by manc (Marriage is between a man and a woman no sick MA,CT sham marriage end racism end affirmative action)
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To: The Anti-One

“Furious” and “fierce” are two more words that now belong exclusively to the “gay” emotional typology.


13 posted on 12/17/2008 4:41:49 PM PST by angkor (Conservatism is not a religious movement.)
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To: goldstategop

great isn’t it to see these homo’s get done over, the idiots actually thought he was going to give them marriage right off the bat.

maybe they never heard Biden or knew in the black community or the area of chicago homo’s are not well received.
Not only that but did they take no notice of the church he went to for 20 years

obama is actually pissing the left off more than the right and it is great to see


14 posted on 12/17/2008 4:42:40 PM PST by manc (Marriage is between a man and a woman no sick MA,CT sham marriage end racism end affirmative action)
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To: Sub-Driver

When your entire “ideology” is pandering the those who are pandered to less will always be upset.

Too bad no one runs on principles anymore. Maybe Paline, Jindal or Steele will lead us from this moral morass.


15 posted on 12/17/2008 4:43:11 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Der neuen Fuhrer: AKA the Murdering Messiah: Keep your powder dry, folks)
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To: manc
I preferred it when the homos were in the closet.
16 posted on 12/17/2008 4:43:20 PM PST by Churchillspirit
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To: Sub-Driver
Gay activists furious with Obama By: Ben Smith and Nia-Malika Henderson December 17, 2008 06:32 PM EST

Prolly gonna hold their breath and stamp their feet. Maybe even say something snotty. I wonder if Ben and Nia-Malika, bless their little hearts, are writing from the inside, or merely as informed observers.

These "folks" don't have much to worry about.

17 posted on 12/17/2008 4:43:59 PM PST by RobinOfKingston (Democrats, the party of evil. Republicans, the party of stupid.)
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To: manc

Hey LGBTs!
Your ass ain’t gonna believe what your eyes are telling you!


18 posted on 12/17/2008 4:44:29 PM PST by omega4179 ( Those who can't write, write the news)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

Who’s the opportunist-Obama or Warren?


19 posted on 12/17/2008 4:44:42 PM PST by liberalism is suicide (Communism,fascism-no matter how you slice socialism, its still baloney)
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To: Sub-Driver
..Gay activists furious with Obama ...

..oh $hit, I could just punch a pillow.

20 posted on 12/17/2008 4:44:50 PM PST by SGCOS
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