OlderAlan Cumming: Barack Obama Wrong To Ask Rick Warren
President-elect Barack Obama has chosen Orange County mega-pastor Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his swearing, which has dismayed many Hollywood liberals. Actor Alan Cumming has taken to HuffPo to voice his opinion:
“In many ways Rick Warren is like a lot of people we know — friends’ dads or people we meet on planes that are pleasant but occasionally offer an opinion that gives you a startling glimpse into the darkness of their souls. Comparing same-sex relationships with incest and pedophilia is a case in point…
“I, like the majority of Americans, feel that gay people are unfairly discriminated against, and it is time they were afforded equal rights. I have heard the president-elect espouse these same opinions many times, and unlike some friends I have talked to over the last few days, I have no fears that he has altered these opinions in any way or that the invitation to Mr. Warren compromises them and his desire to see them enacted into law.
“Obama is very clearly showing his promise to be everyone’s president — from little, lefty queers like me to big, right-wing religious bigots like Rick Warren. (And he is a bigot. Go look it up in the dictionary.)
“And that, finally, is what is so upsetting and insulting about the idea that Rick Warren will be standing on the podium on this great day of celebration for a new America: because this whole thing is not about gay rights or policy or differences of opinion. It is about human decency and respect. Let’s face it, a generation ago Rick Warren would have made Barack Obama sit at the back of the bus, and now it’s the gays who are back there and we feel kind of lonely.”
Read Alan Cumming’s full entry at HuffingtonPost.com.
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…wow,this guy…..this guy (Alan Cumming) ….ha ha ha ha…..im just going to follow the example from the rabbit in bambi cuz: “if you don’t have anything nice to say,just dont say anything at all” OBVIOUSLY he needs to see some bambi…bigtime
It surprises me that some obama ex-supporters after hearing about obama choosing rick to do a one time short little prayer are completely turning their backs on him.its like never talking to your dad again because he forgot to pick you up from practice ,but it really speaks for itself the statement…
F.Y.I ,theres two mimi’s with two very different opinions,(#76-78)
I participated in a civil union with my boyfriend and I am a heterosexual. I define my civil union as being married to my husband. I have all the same rights as any other marriage that was performed by a priest or pastor. Except that it was not considered blessed by a god. The majority of people in the United States are christians who believe that marriage is defined by a man and woman joining together in life. State and any church in the united states are supposed to be separate institutions. Start trying to change the civil union with the govt. which will work alot faster than trying to change churches who have had the same beliefs regarding marriage for thousands of years. It’ll be alot quicker. By the way the racial injustices in this country can not ever be compared to the gay culture. Who you have sex with and not being able to vote or drink from the same fountain as a person of a different color skin is not the same nor will it ever be.
To all of you who think that the LGBT movement is not the same as the racial civil rights movement…maybe you should take some time to look at even just very recent history like Matthew Shephard or Teena Brandon, murdered just because of their LGBT identity. Or the Great Pink Scare in the 1960’s where students and professors even ACCUSED of being gay were expelled or fired from colleges and universities. As long as we keep a blind eye to the fact that this is the same battle we’ve been raging against discrimination based on race, class, and gender, we’ll be nothing more than an ignorant society with a tokenized and tokenizing president.
It’s pretty amusing to an Aussie how you Americans are all up in arms over this Rick Warren fellow using his right to free speech to be a homophobe, then in the next breath you get mad if you can’t speak your own minds on this forum. You can’t have it both ways, either accept this Warren dude has a right to free speech hatred, accept gays have a right to dislike the guy out loud and accept that Obama has the right to have whoever he wants at his ceremony or you don’t have free speech at all. Really, free speech is an excuse to say nasty things to each other, you don’t need it to be nice.
jesus chirst… i think its time for a certain group of people to go to the back of the bus again.
Bonzo,
Can you explain which special rights you’re referring to? Which ones that straight people don’t already have?
Thanks.
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