Rick Warren as Obama’s choice for the inaugural invocation, for reals?
The best critique I’ve seen so far is this one, by Michelle Goldberg over at Religion Dispatches. (Addendum: See also Gloria Feldt, “Say It Isn’t So, O!”)
I get the bridging of constituencies intended through this pick, but still SO not cool. Why why why?
Please feel free to post links to any organized efforts you’ve seen to send messages of outrage to Obama HQ in comments.
Comments
anniegirl1138 — December 19, 2008
I wish I could say I was outraged but I never bought into the idea that Obama was pro-woman. He barely reached out to us at all personally. It was Michelle and then later Hillary who did his wooing of us as voters.
Nothing has changed in our nation where women's rights are concerned. We have those that are easy and convenient to grant and that is all we will ever have until we realize we need to unite as a whole gender and fight for equal footing.
Bob Lamm — December 19, 2008
Giving this honor to Rick Warren is a horrendous decision and a betrayal of many of us who care deeply about women's rights (including the right to a legal abortion) and LGBT rights (including the right to marry).
I sent e-mails to virtually everyone in my address book about this betrayal and have sent statements to Obama via his website.
On Sunday night, I attended (with some ambivalence) an Obama meeting at a neighbor's apartment. The Obama worship of some people there and the approach of "what can we do to help Obama?" (rather than the American people) inevitably set me off. I finally said that while I supported Obama in the election, I have demonstrated against every U.S. president beginning with Lyndon Johnson and expected that I would at some point have to demonstrate against Barack Obama.
But it never occurred to me that I might have to do so BEFORE his inauguration!