Comments on: Obama responds to critics over Rick Warren as outrage from gay community grows http://minnesotaindependent.com/20643/obama-responds-to-critics-over-rick-warren-outrage-from-gay-community-grows News. Politics. Media. Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:48:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Crystal D. http://minnesotaindependent.com/20643/obama-responds-to-critics-over-rick-warren-outrage-from-gay-community-grows/comment-page-1#comment-23165 Crystal D. Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:07:40 +0000 http://minnesotaindependent.com/?p=20643#comment-23165 Yes, Warren is a brilliant man. Burning condoms is probably the best way to prevent AIDs. The world is truly a better place because of him. That the majority of Americans believe that rights should only be given to humans who are exactly like them is a tragedy and absolutely sickening. Rights should be for all people, regardless of religious belief, race, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic. Yes, Warren is a brilliant man. Burning condoms is probably the best way to prevent AIDs. The world is truly a better place because of him.

That the majority of Americans believe that rights should only be given to humans who are exactly like them is a tragedy and absolutely sickening. Rights should be for all people, regardless of religious belief, race, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic.

]]> By: icecycle http://minnesotaindependent.com/20643/obama-responds-to-critics-over-rick-warren-outrage-from-gay-community-grows/comment-page-1#comment-21239 icecycle Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:34:26 +0000 http://minnesotaindependent.com/?p=20643#comment-21239 Rick Warren expresses the viewpoint of the vast, overwhelming majority of religious leaders worldwide, and the majority of the people of America. The gay rights crowd has a choice to make, they can educate themselves, and learn to live with the fact that their behavior choices will be tolerated, but never accepted, or they can scream and yell ala California which will show the entire country just how radical they are. Rick Warren expresses the viewpoint of the vast, overwhelming majority of religious leaders worldwide, and the majority of the people of America.

The gay rights crowd has a choice to make, they can educate themselves, and learn to live with the fact that their behavior choices will be tolerated, but never accepted, or they can scream and yell ala California which will show the entire country just how radical they are.

]]> By: Russ http://minnesotaindependent.com/20643/obama-responds-to-critics-over-rick-warren-outrage-from-gay-community-grows/comment-page-1#comment-21160 Russ Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:26:07 +0000 http://minnesotaindependent.com/?p=20643#comment-21160 If Rick Warren had been anti-Black, anti-Hispanic, anti-Asian, anti-Jew, anti-any other minority other than gay, then he would not have been given a place at Obama's inaugural table because it would have been wrong to give such a person a platform in which to give validity to their bigotry. But since Warren is anti-gay, Obama tries to defend his choice by saying he wants to listen to differing viewpoints. Bigotry is bigotry, no matter what rhetoric you wrap it in. If we are to use Obama's failed logic on this issue, then white supremacists should have a chair at Obama's inaugural table (but they won't because we know their positions on social issues are wrong, just as Rick Warren is wrong). Obama blew it with this one. It is painfully obvious to anyone with a brain that this is simply pandering to the radical religious whack jobs who have held this country hostage, via the Bush regime, for the last 8 years. With this most egregious of decisions, Obama has flushed his credibility down the toilet. This is not change we can believe in. This is just more of the same garbage that gay people have had to deal with the last 8 years. And it stinks. Obama benefitted greatly from gay people's, their friends', and their families' financial donations and their votes (including financial donations and vote from this gay person). And how are we repaid? We are thrown under the bus. The hearts and minds of a huge segment of the U.S. population are lost by such a purely political maneuver, and we cannot be one people/one country because of it. Here's hoping Obama wises up. If he wants to fix this country, he's going to need everyone's involvement, and right now, gays, their families, and friends are feeling like their involvement in cleaning up this country is neither wanted nor desired. Not a good message. Not a good way to begin Obama's presidency. Not good at all. And there's no excuse for it. If Rick Warren had been anti-Black, anti-Hispanic, anti-Asian, anti-Jew, anti-any other minority other than gay, then he would not have been given a place at Obama’s inaugural table because it would have been wrong to give such a person a platform in which to give validity to their bigotry. But since Warren is anti-gay, Obama tries to defend his choice by saying he wants to listen to differing viewpoints. Bigotry is bigotry, no matter what rhetoric you wrap it in. If we are to use Obama’s failed logic on this issue, then white supremacists should have a chair at Obama’s inaugural table (but they won’t because we know their positions on social issues are wrong, just as Rick Warren is wrong). Obama blew it with this one. It is painfully obvious to anyone with a brain that this is simply pandering to the radical religious whack jobs who have held this country hostage, via the Bush regime, for the last 8 years. With this most egregious of decisions, Obama has flushed his credibility down the toilet. This is not change we can believe in. This is just more of the same garbage that gay people have had to deal with the last 8 years. And it stinks. Obama benefitted greatly from gay people’s, their friends’, and their families’ financial donations and their votes (including financial donations and vote from this gay person). And how are we repaid? We are thrown under the bus. The hearts and minds of a huge segment of the U.S. population are lost by such a purely political maneuver, and we cannot be one people/one country because of it. Here’s hoping Obama wises up. If he wants to fix this country, he’s going to need everyone’s involvement, and right now, gays, their families, and friends are feeling like their involvement in cleaning up this country is neither wanted nor desired. Not a good message. Not a good way to begin Obama’s presidency. Not good at all. And there’s no excuse for it.

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