Alan Cumming: Barack Obama Wrong To Ask Rick Warren

So sad to see a lot of people saying gays and lesbians are being too sensitive. They have every right to speak out against a man who clearly discriminates. I bet these posters wouldn’t be singing the same tune if they were being discriminated against.

I get that Warren has done good things, but the bottom line is that he refuses to see that gays and lesbians are equal. He can say that opinion is formed because of his religion, but it still doesn’t wash. Religions discriminate, and the whole gay and lesbian issue proves that beyond a shadow of a doubt.

People say we as a country have come so far as a people, and to a point we have. We have elected an African-American president, and decades ago that was an impossibility. But, it’s obvious that we have also taken 2 steps back in regards to homosexuality. And that is a shame.

Alan Cumming must be one of the most ignorant imbeciles I’ve ever heard. If he had done any research into Rick Warren, he would know that he is a man of integrity. He and his wife have set up an international organization to help those with AIDS, gone into 3rd World countries themselves and helped these victims when others are afraid to go near them.

–What has Alan Cummings done? Just rant and rave because all he knows in his little peanut head is that Rick Warren is a Christian pastor. He is the true bigot. He goes on one word: ‘Christian’ and decides that they are all bigots when he probably doesn’t know one personally, has never stepped into a church, or read even a chapter of the Bible.

Someone said earlier that being gay is not the same as being black.
In many ways that is true but where he is trying to draw the connection is at the fact that both groups were (and still are depending on where you live) discriminated against for something that they don’t really have any control over. Some may argue that gay people do have control over it because they can chose not to be, but honnestly have you ever tried controlling who you love or telling yourself not to love someone? It’s not very easy. If you love someone it’s pretty impossible to tell your heart otherwise.

On another note, what’s an invocation? I am not American and therefore don’t really know the process that goes with swearing in a president. Im asuming from the context in jj’s post its some sort of religious sermony thing or something?

You know what…we cant criticize anyones religous views EXCEPT christians?? Christians have a right to believe what they want. In todays world everything is so PC its sickening…we cant say merry christmas,Whites and christians are really the last groups of people you can say prejudice things against…and dont say that isnt true because it is! I hear it every day. Since liberals are supposed to be so open minded and accepting, why dont they accept the fact that christians can believe what they want about homosexuality…and stop trying to make everything thats not the norm the norm!! Stpo trying to make christians feel like they need to change..because if they are real christians they wont…no matter whta names you liberals want to throw at them. And having a religious view that homosexuality is wrong is not homophobia!!!! Its a freakin view people! Lay the **** off!!! Oh yeah and MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PS: I applaud President Elect- Barak Obama for this… The prayers of our Christian community are working and this is just a sign of it. Keep it up fellow brothers and sisters in Christ.

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Jonna,

Gays are ALWAYS trying to equate the fact that they are not allowed to “marry” to the atrocities suffered by African Americans during the Civil Rights era.

This born-and-bred American agrees with that “idiot Brit” 100%. You don’t make your message one of inclusion and then start your presidency with an invocation whose central message is one of excluding a good 5% of our country’s population. Clearly Obama’s not *so* much the voice of change that he’s above pandering to a class of people who use the hateful voices of ancient ramblings and power-hungry religious figures as an excuse to practice hate and deny an underrepresented minority its right to basic civil rights.

P.S. Say what you will about the difference between blacks and gays, but history will find some of the views expressed on this board just as repulsive and incomprehensible as the mentality of people who thought blacks were a sub-class of humans.

I love how one gay person who is pissed at this is all of a sudden saying, “The Gay community won’t be voting for Obama anymore”.

Oh REALLY??? Doubt it.

You are only one person. You don’t speak for the ‘gay community’ and the ONLY PEOPLE angry at the is those on the FAR-LEFT.

This to shall pass. Obama is the President for everyone and he is including another Pastor there who is not an Evangelical. That way he is trying to be as inclusive as possible. This was his message from the get go.

I love how some people on the FAR-LEFT always get pissed and angry over superficial things like this 3 MINUTE PRAYER. Its not like Warren is being hired to be on the Obama Administration so chill out.

Obama has been the most PRO-GAY President Elect ever and the most PRO-WOMAN, if you bothered to look at where he stands - you would know that.

Third Party votes only give the Republicans more of a chance to win Office. Remember 2000, when those on the FAR-LEFT voted for NADER and GEORGE BUSH won by the slightest margins? Yeah, and you guys on the FAR-LEFT were the first once to cry about a Republican Whitehouse. Guess what? Your Third-Party vote helped get him elected.

For those angry…. CHILL OUT. This isn’t a big deal. There has always been a Religious leader to open the Inauguration and not one of them has ever been Pro-Gay, so I don’t know what you expect. You should wait to see policy changed. Things that actually matter.

Rick Warren doesn’t promote hate.

Barack Obama is not going to solve the WORLDS problems over night…C’mon people you all voted for him….he is a good man…

Maybe JUST maybe his experience with Barack with free up his thoughts on gays??

Everyone has placed soooooooooo much pressure on Obama to save the world…well folks he is a human…..and this is A PROCESS….and we will never ever be the picture perfect world you want….

I hate to echo what has already been said but Obama has committed himself to bridging the divides that separate us. The only way that you combat intolerance is to be open and inviting of the discussion; and I’m sorry but the reaction from the gay community is anything but reasonable. Obama intends to repeal Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell and he is apparently close to appointing an openly gay man to be the Sec. of the Navy and the gay community is in an uproar about Rick Warren delivering a 90 second prayer? Keep focused on the big issues and stop worrying about the little things. I know this is an unpopular thought but people have the right to think and feel the way they want to about any issue including gay marriage and abortion. It is unfair to label anyone who disagrees as a bigot or a hate monger. It is clear that Obama intends to be the President of everyone and not just those he agrees with and he was explicit about that when he was running. And to the person who talked about Obama only caring about black people, have you seen his cabinet? It seems to me that he is picking a cabinet that represents everyone in America and not just those that look like him. And lastly, perhaps Mr. Cumming doesn’t know the history of black people in America and maybe he needs to educate himself because the sitting at the back of the bus should not be used in such a dismissive manner. Alan Cumming never had to sit at the back of the bus literally or figuratively and it says more about him that he would resort to such rhetoric than it does about Warren or Obama. The gay community is simply showing that they are as capable of bigotry and ignorance as those they criticize so forcefully.

Obama is NOT for GAYS…please. He just wants the GAY VOTES…duh??????

Right on #48

I agree.