President-Elect Obama's Pick Of Pastor Rick Warren To Give The Invocation At The Inauguration Stinks To High Heaven!
First of all, Warren is homophobic. Second of all, he is adamantly anti-abortion. It is absolutely the wrong message for the first black President to give a major platform to a mega-church conservative evangelical who holds beliefs and ideals completely contradictory to the majority of the millions of people who elected you. The President's inaugural invocation should be a message of inclusion for all of the American people and how exactly is Warren going to accomplish that since he has a clear record of excluding others?
Third of all, his inclusion STINKS of political pandering on Obama's part and it makes me sick that Obama would use religion to score political points on his inauguration day. And since Obama threw Reverend Wright under the bus during his Presidential political campaign, how about picking a religious figure from his personal religious denomination of over twenty years to celebrate his inauguration? Could you imagine the power and symbolism of an African American woman pastor delivering the invocation?
Quite frankly, overall Obama's entire inauguration program SUCKS big time. It doesn't even begin to reflect the body of people that supported and voted for his presidency. Where in the hell is Will.I.Am on this program? It could not possibly upset anyone to have the dude that created the you-tube political video of the year on stage at the inauguration. This inauguration program is nowhere as interesting, ambitious, or entertaining as President Bill Clinton's 1992 inauguration.
Check what my blogging sister Tami at What Tami Says has to say on this issue. Please feel free to let me know what you think.
