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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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To: Sub-Driver

In the media, homosexuals are perpetually “furious” like muslims are “outraged.”


41 posted on 12/17/2008 5:13:55 PM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: Sub-Driver

Perhaps the gay activists want Rev. Rosie O’Donnell to perform the rites prior to the Obamaniacs’ mass orgasm.


42 posted on 12/17/2008 5:16:50 PM PST by citizencon
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To: huldah1776

Amen. I am diz-gusted with Warren and his blasphemies. Now this - no shock at all, really.


43 posted on 12/17/2008 5:18:32 PM PST by BerkeleyRefugee
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To: Sub-Driver
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They look ANGRY!

44 posted on 12/17/2008 5:23:44 PM PST by hercuroc
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To: tbpiper

He might be self destructive. He is for sure the consumate social wheeler, using any social mean, christian or antichristian, to make personal contacts and fraternizations with those who know him best. It helps him wink, nod and and select. He makes these gestures that are never promises, stances that are never real stances, contradictions andbizantine flip flops.

In the end, the irony is that those openly outraged gays are at least believing in something. Obama seems to believe in nothing and to always fight or frustrate any seed of belief what so ever out there, whether Christian or not.

He’s a real nasty piece of work. Christians will be persecuted, but so will everyone else apparently.

Happy Obama everyone. (sarc off).


45 posted on 12/17/2008 5:24:21 PM PST by JudgemAll (control freaks, their world & their problem with my gun and my protecting my private party)
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To: Sub-Driver

This is hilarious! The fags thought when Obama was elected they could shove their gay agenda down everybody’s throat. Obama is showing them they don’t own him and he has simply used them to get where he is. I think Rick Warren is a good pick but he should council Obama in regards to infanticide.


46 posted on 12/17/2008 5:24:50 PM PST by micmac
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To: Sub-Driver
Politico's propaganda is pathetic.

Obama will give the Homos everything he can and they know it.

47 posted on 12/17/2008 5:29:30 PM PST by mrsmith
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To: Sub-Driver

Obama shouldn’t have bothered trying to appease conservative evangelicals. It won’t work for the same reason compassionate conservatism (ie: liberal appeasement) didn’t work. Meanwhile, he’s pissed off a valuable constituency. I’m sure he has the same thought Jorge had, “where else are they gonna go?” but they might stay home next election. See where that got the Republican party?


48 posted on 12/17/2008 5:34:59 PM PST by saganite
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To: Sub-Driver
Who didn't see this coming?

People never learn: Don't fall in love with a politician--they'll break your heart every time.

49 posted on 12/17/2008 5:37:10 PM PST by GSWarrior (It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Angry turd rustlers? I’m not having a hard time NOT caring


50 posted on 12/17/2008 5:37:48 PM PST by Quickgun
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To: Sub-Driver

Oh My God a tizzy fit by a bunch of sissies, whatever will the president elect do......


51 posted on 12/17/2008 5:40:45 PM PST by usmcobra (Go ask Obama for your change, and don't bug me!)
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To: Sub-Driver

This is all BS. It’s all about gratuity, free lunch, free kiddy porn etc... there is no real belief or “neo-morality” behind all this gay moralization. They don’t care, it’s about people who don’t give a hoot.

On a second note, lately there has been a wave of gay commedians who are white and racist (gay and racism is synonimous to gratuitous antialtruistic acts). This is an avenue for the biggot democrate whites to attack the blackness of Obama via this spat.

Obama’s message is less about gayness and christianity, but it’s a subtle subplot between black racists and white racists going on. They all know the society accepts gays and is degenerating. Persecution of Christians is a done deal and has been going on for a while, unchallenged. Thus this is a cover for a subplot of racial attacks. Raising the word jews and Hitler in this article is a code confirmation of it.


52 posted on 12/17/2008 5:47:09 PM PST by JudgemAll (control freaks, their world & their problem with my gun and my protecting my private party)
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To: Sub-Driver

For people who like to call themselves gay, they sure are an unhappy lot...


53 posted on 12/17/2008 5:47:59 PM PST by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: Sub-Driver

I might add that Obama must hate America for its whiteness, and this is all he meant when he talked of change... Zimbabweing the US and getting a genocide against whites via these gay clueless spats.

Oh, well... Now AlQaeda is free to act, now that this issue on gays is neutralizing unity against this manchurian’s activities. Those worried about buttholes and globowarming won’t be able to fight what is coming because they are not seeing it, and simply because they are not allowed to see strategic threats via those narrow minded spats.


54 posted on 12/17/2008 5:52:12 PM PST by JudgemAll (control freaks, their world & their problem with my gun and my protecting my private party)
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To: Sub-Driver

Have y’all ever noticed that the queers spend most of their time being “furious,” “outraged,” “angry,” “enraged,” or “insulted?”

Must suck to be them. Pun very much intended.


55 posted on 12/17/2008 6:02:05 PM PST by upchuck (Get ready for 2009: Pray; Raise/conserve cash; Pay your debts; Pray; Stockpile; Buy ammo; Pray)
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To: Rocky

Gay activists aren’t really gay, are they?””

NO, they are just the run of the mill fecal-eaters.


56 posted on 12/17/2008 6:10:58 PM PST by Neoliberalnot ((Hallmarks of Liberalism: Ingratitude and Envy))
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To: Sub-Driver

Now Barry gets to suffer the wrath of the H8ters.


57 posted on 12/17/2008 6:15:58 PM PST by kaehurowing
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To: Sub-Driver

As mentioned in earlier posts, Louis Farrakhan, the Black Panthers and others who so enthusiastically supported Obama are often hostile to gay “rights” and the homosexual lobby. I think this might be a real factor in Obama’s decisions, i.e. support from both militant and ordinary church going blacks count for a lot more than support from the homosexual militants.


58 posted on 12/17/2008 6:16:54 PM PST by LuxAerterna
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To: Sub-Driver

Should have stayed in the log cabin, now shouldn’t you?


59 posted on 12/17/2008 6:27:58 PM PST by keving (We get the government we vote for)
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To: LuxAerterna

The gays are still smarting from the fact that black Obama voters voted up Prop. 8. They’re likely to be a bit touchy during his administration, and we need to use that wedge whenever possible.


60 posted on 12/17/2008 6:36:14 PM PST by hunter112 (We seem to be on an excrement river in a Native American watercraft without a propulsion device.)
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