It is NOT a deliberate insult from Obama, nor is he spitting on the LGBT community.

There are three people in my life that belong to this community (my mother and two of my good friends) and when this came up in our conversations, all of them were irked at this “Make a mountain out of a mole hole” reaction. It was completely understood where the motivation for this came from, and no insult was taken.

Please folks, let’s all realize that almost any decision made by a politician of Obama’s position and stature is going to have a ripple effect across multiple groups of people. Not everyone is going to be happy with every decision he makes, but do try to keep in mind that he’s actually trying to help as many people as he can with an interest in promoting the common good, unlike another president I could mention.

LGBTs: you may feel slighted by this decision, but in the big scheme of things, it’s an incredibly minor detail. This president’s on your side… give him a chance to prove it on something that will make an impact.

And, why the hell do we have a prayer before our President is inaugurated?

Try continued funding for Iraq, supporting Patriot Act, FISA,
VP choice and most of the cabinet.

This isn’t the first time Maddow stance comes up shaky. Maybe this is her second misstep.

“Being President is like being in prison but, in prison one meets a better class of people“.

And I am still FAR more disgusted that religion is part of the inauguration than anyone who could be chosen for the invocation. That being said, I wonder how many will leave Warren’s flock because he chose to accept the invite from the “godless Muslim”?

Rick Warren may be a big, soft teddy bear – BUT HE’S STILL A BIGOT. And soft bigotry is STILL bigotry.

I’m over sixty years old and gay–been with my partner for 26 years. We actually believed that equality was going to finally appear on a President’s desk. We donated what money we could to Obama under very trying financial circumstances. We’ve had to endure discrimination all our lives–we’ve been spit at, had beer cans thrown at us, we’ve been chased by a group carrying a baseball bat (and the police shrugged it off and did nothing).

Balancement, thanks for your post. Don’t give up hope of seeing equality in your lifetime because there are still millions of people wanting to do whatever is possible to make that a reality.

And the point I have been trying to make here is that if Warren was on the side of discrimination against Blacks, or Jews, or any other group that has spurred racism and hatred, the bigotry he supports would make him ineligible to speak on the same stage as Barack.

And if I’m wrong in that assumption, then I’ll retract what I’ve said here after I see President Obama sharing a stage with, and giving worldwide voice to, the leaders of the KKK and NeoNazi/White Supremacy groups. Which I know will never happen.

PEACE

In this case, Warren’s mouth is definitely full of sh*t, but as it is, this move seems to be designed to (somewhat) placate the evangelical crowd and diffuses any future “he’s anti-Christian” memes…although, that crapola prolly won’t go away, it’ll just be easier to refute by having to deal with the idiot Warren for a few minutes before he officially is sworn in to office.

It was all I could find after a couple of searches…if it isn’t true, please correct me, but the point is, no “master list” of who delivered invocations is readily available on the internets…leading me to conclude it is a relatively minor ceremonial role.