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Daily Kos —
Sunday... and there's plenty to have an opinion about. Frank Rich on Rick Warren: Obama may not only overestimate his ability to bridge some of our fundamental differences but also underestimate how persistent some of those differences are. The exhilaration of his decisive election victory and the deserved applause that has greeted his mostly glitch-free transition can’t entirely mask the tensions underneath. Before there is profound social change, there is always high anxiety. Peter Schiff: ...
Prelude To 2009 by Anthony McCarthy
ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES —
... Frank Rich’s column yesterday is one of the best I’ve read on Barack Obama’s Rick Warren invitation. I agree with a lot of it, including his points about Obama’s personal flaw of hubris. But I have a lot of faith in his ability to learn from mistakes and to admit when he is wrong. I frimly believe that Barack Obama will produce some positive change forward in areas where the government has been going backwards for most of our lives. I believe he will overturn “Don’t Ask”, he will overturn many of the policies that have harmed the lives of women and ...
Loveland
David E's Fablog —
... of Stephen Sondheim’s great musical about the abject failuer of heterosexual marriage in post WWII America, has penned a most interesting ...
With "Advocates" Like These . . .
TalkLeft —
who needs opponents? From the comments section to the Frank Rich column I wrote about last night: I've been an advocate of gay marriage for 20 years but the behavior and uproar of the gay community has turned me against them and their causes the way no right-winger or religious nutjob could ever do. How dare they make this inauguration all about them! . . . Gays have only themselves to blame for the passage of Prop 8. They did ZERO outreach to the black and latino communities. They were so arrogant that they did not ...
Religion & Politics linkaround
The Anchoress —
... . I think there is an opportunity here for some long-overdue national dialogue on what constitutes “hate” as opposed to a simple and honest difference of opinion. To some, Warren, who is hardly what one would call “obsessed” on gay issues, is not “perfect” on the issue (he does not support gay marriage) therefore he must be a “hater” and a “homophobe. Frank Rich has an especially hysterical, dress-over-the-face bit of blather on this, today. The formula appears to be: “if you do not agree with everything I want, ...
Adele Stan: Transcendental Invocation:Surprise Me, Rick Warren!
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
Nearly two weeks after Barack Obama stunned his most passionate supporters by announcing his choice of Rev. Rick Warren to make the invocation at Obama's inauguration, you'd expect the thing to have blown over. That it has not says as much about the American people as does our election of Barack Obama, of which we like to think as the expression of the better angels of our nature.
Count me among those who felt stung, yea, smitten, by the announcement. As you've no doubt heard countless times by now, Warren didn't simply support Proposition 8, the ballot measure that overturned same-sex marriage in California -- he ...
Aubrey Sarvis: Time for Action
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
The time for polite and passive waiting has passed. Now it's action time. The signals coming out of the Obama camp have begun to dismay some of us. Eight weeks after the election the President-elect has not appointed one openly LGBT person to a high office in his Administration, which will be upon us in three short weeks.
In an affront to the LGBT community, he asked the Rev. Rick Warren, pastor of a California megachurch, to give the invocation at his inauguration. The preacher fought hard for Proposition 8 in California, putting committed gay relationships in the same bag with incest, polygamy, and "an older guy marrying a child." ...
