Reply #80: As long as he does not pick [View All]

[Bluenorthwest]

McClurkin or Caldwell. My fear for months now has been that inauguration would be another platform for the Ex-gay branch of the Fundy movement to grab some legitimacy from Obama again. He has been asked and refuses to say they will not be invited to speak. I'd be fine with Wright myself, he's an old radical like me. And he stands with my people as I do with his. McClurkin and Caldwell and the restof the Fundies are a huge issue for me, and in general there is way too much religion and dogma in this election cycle. Preachers are in general poison to politics.
I do think that if Obama had swiftly apologized for the sermonizing against gays by McClurkin and said it would happen no more, instead of calling homophobes 'good decent and moral people' and saying he would never stop listening to their prejudice, he might have more allies in this round, and more of a righteous leg to stand upon. He allowed for and then defended gay baiting. That was never properly addressed, and now the preacher thing is back again. He should have seperated his Church and State lives clearly and fully when McClurkin bashed good Democrats. Know your friends. Right is always right, and bigotry and baiting are always wrong. Always. Winking and nodding about prejudice is not acceptable.

No religious bigots at inauguration. No bashing segments of the population at our celebrations and cermonies. That is something that a Democrat should not have to be asked about. This baiting is a betrayal of our deepest principles. Obama dealt the dirty card last fall, and it still sits there unexplained. Will I be called cursed at his inaugural? Like I was on his campaign? Why the hell should I have to worry about that, this is not the GOP. No baiting on the stage.