LYING HATEFUL ELIMINATIONIST PREACHER TO JOIN OBAMA AT INAUGURATION
Smell the change: it smells like rick Warren’s ass:
There was no doubt that Obama, like every president before him, would pick a Christian minister to perform this sacred duty. But Obama had thousands of clergy to choose from, and the choice of Warren is not only a slap in the face to progressive ministers toiling on the front lines of advocacy and service but a bow to the continuing influence of the religious right in American politics. Warren vocally opposes gay marriage, does not believe in evolution, has compared abortion to the Holocaust and backed the assassination of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Hooray for Obama! i can smell the change!
Beneath the sheep’s clothing lurks a culture warrior wolf. After the Saddleback forum, he told the Wall Street Journal that the only difference between him and James Dobson was that of “tone.” After insisting that his agenda was “broad,” and holding himself out as an impartial arbiter of the forum, he declared that voting for a “Holocaust denier” (i.e., someone who is pro-choice) is a “deal-breaker” for many evangelicals. Obama was pressured to talk about “abortion reduction,” but Warren likens such rhetoric likening it to Schindler’s List: an attempt to save some lives but not end a “holocaust.”
Yay! My jewish dad is a Holocaust denier! So’s my jewish grandma! Hip hip HOORAY for Obama and Rick Warren, America’s Pastor.
In that tradition, Warren in October implored his followers to vote for Proposition 8 because “there are about 2 percent of Americans are homosexual, gay, lesbian people. We should not let 2 percent of the population…change a definition of marriage that has been supported by every single culture and every single religion for 5,000 years.” Warren called opposition to gay marriage a “humanitarian issue” because “God created marriage for the purpose of family, love and procreation.”
God also says you can beat your wife, that menstruating women need to be segregated in special huts, and that eating shrimp is a sin. I don’t see rick warren campaigning against shrimp-eaters. Hooray for religious bigotry, Hooray for Obama! Hooray for letting other people’s religious dictates rule nonbelievers’ lives. Hooray for theocracy. if it’s good enough for Obama, it’s good enough for me!
Warren, a creationist, believes that homosexuality disproves evolution; he told CNN’s Larry King in 2005, “If Darwin was right, which is survival of the fittest then homosexuality would be a recessive gene because it doesn’t reproduce and you would think that over thousands of years that homosexuality would work itself out of the gene pool.”
Warren protests that he’s not a homophobe; it’s just that two dudes marrying, in his mind, is indistinguishable from an adult marrying a child, a brother marrying his sister, or polygamy. He thinks his AIDS relief efforts represent an elevated form of Christianity over those non-evangelical do-gooders whom he compares to “Marxists” because they’re more interested in good works than salvation.
Hooray for America’s pastor for drawing false equivalences! Who cares about thinking, let’s just do whatever some guy says that God wants us to do. Hooray for Obama!
Oh wait, did I say “hooray”? i meant “FUCK YOU.” Fuck you in the dick with a pickle fork.
December 18th, 2008 at 11:19 pm
i love you brendan!