Use this information collected here at Shakesville to let the organizers of the inaugural ball know that you too disapprove of misogynist homophobe Rev. Rick Warren’s selection to do the invocation at Obama’s inauguration. Pass along to your friends!
Here’s what I sent to Emmett Beliveau, emmett@pic2009.org, the CEO of the inaugural committee:
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Dear Mr. Beliveau:
I am writing to express my strong displeasure with the choice of Rev. Rick Warren as the one to perform the invocation at President-Elect Obama’s inauguration.
As a woman, I find Warren’s anti-choice views misogynist. Warren’s inclusion in a prominent position at the inauguration represents hypocrisy on the part of the Obama-Biden team, who ran on a platform advocating women’s reproductive freedom.
As a queer person, I also find Warren’s homophobic behavior despicable as well. His anti-marriage “slippery slope” argument equates gay marriage with incest and rape. How can Obama, who has said on record that he supports gay civil unions, condone Warren’s bigotry by letting him give the inaugural invocation?
Warren’s narrow-minded intolerance should have no place at an event supposedly heralding positive change. Choose another speaker for the invocation, one who truly represents the liberalism, hope and open-mindedness to which the Obama/Biden team has so frequently appealed.
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We queers are good enough to provide their entertainment (ooh looky, a group of LGBT musicians will perform in the inaugural parade), cook their food, style their clothes/homes/hair, teach their children (as long as we don’t out ourselves) and care for their sick…but we are not good enough to be treated as equals. I try so hard not to take the “us against them” attitude, but that really is what this whole thing has boiled down to. There are other folks he could have chosen for the invocation that would have represented “reaching across the aisle”. I guess it is really true that queers only count during the election.