In response to Mr. Funke:
There is a reason Obama picked this pastor to perform the invocation, but to understand why you’d have to step out of your personal feelings to See the Bigger Picture. The bigger picture is very important, as it is relevant to rounding up support of all peoples. In order to do this, Intelligent Strategy is Required.
Sit quietly in a non-reactionary space for a moment and Open Your Mind Wider, See The Whole Picture. Gaining support from this particular group of people is important. Why? Because we would like to see Obama Live a Long Term in the White House. How Amazing!!!..Warren has erased from his website “someone unwilling to repent of their homosexuality lifestyle would not be accepted as a member at Saddleback church.” This is a tiny opening of a long tunnel…but indeed a start!
The man is working for you!
Obama Knowledge Rocks
Leorra C.
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I guess I should clarify what I said about the Saddleback website. The comment was removed from the website. But gays and lesbians are still denied church membership. That’s negative change by Warren, not positive change.
Come on, Michael-
The Big O will never please all of his ‘big tent’ constituency. His coalition is made up of self-identified groups that have proliferated and thrive on dogma and ideology that defines progress and proscribes action on a very narrow bandwidth. All else is heresy.
If the United States is going to pull through its domestic and foreign problems quickly and successfully, you, the GLTB crowd, ethnic minorities, pro-life and pro-choice, etc., etc., etc., will have to develop a talent for working together and trying to accept that there are people who will not change their life style or long held beliefs because it is the ‘right thing to do’ or because ‘that’s wrong.’
People are different–and if we don’t start working together we are going to fail individually. I don’t expect people to start holding hands and singing ‘Kumbaya,’ but they can’t pick up their ball and go home at every affront, whether real or imagined. It’s time we all grew up just a little.
Apparently one misses the greater good when one focuses on one’s only issue. And focuses on the issue. And focuses. Etc. There is a theme here, Funke. Yours is not the only issue and to reach out means to reach out to all. Try a little tenderness and give the man a chance.
Thanks to Leorra for laying it out straight.