Obama on Warren: Let's come together

We must remember that the fight for equality and acceptance for LGBT poepl in the US will long and hard. We will not get much help from this administration, but we must look in the long term and continue to fight untill the bitter end. Keep asking for the abolition of the don't ask don't tell policy and the repeal of DOMA. Don't think any president will help keep pushing forward.

President-elect Obama is entitled to name his own team. He has to work with them, I, or you, don't !! In spite of our differences, Democrats and Republicans, Religious and Humanists, Rich and Poor, we are all Americans and it would be, in all our best interests, if we chose to work together. If not, we can say good-bye to the great nation we had, and could have, again. This means, everyone and no pretending, or excuses. If you are American, you will stand up, quit the whining and get to work. We need everyone to do their fair share, pay your taxes, follow our laws and ideals and, above all, treat everyone, as you would like to be treated. Finally, to the business class, quit the gouging. All of us must sacrifice something, maybe you can tone down your profit margin !!
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.

I understand the concerns of the LGBT community; Rick Warren has definitely turned me off of late; but it seems like Obama has so much on his plate already, beginning with the economy; must the president elect also micro manage every detail of the inauguration, monitor staff phone calls to the governor, pick out gowns for Michelle and the girls?

As a secular nation, there shouldn't even be prayers of any type at a governmental function such as an inauguration.

BTW, if he's going to invite the religious bigots, where are the racists? Aren't we supposed to include everyone?

We are not a secular nation and that is WHY Obama is having prayer at his inauguration.

If we honored the separation of church and state, Warren could stay home. His support of torture is as egregious as his support of prop. h8.

I have taken Obama at his word: he says he wants to bring America together and I see his reaching out to Rick Warren as his putting his words into practice. The latest in a long line of failed Republican Presidents, George W Bush, said he wanted to be a uniter, not a divider. Just the opposite happened. Considering the anger the Warren invitation has generated, I can understand that trying to be a uniter is easier said than done.

I'm waiting to see how this plays out, but this is what I am hoping to see: Rick Warren sees the anger and hurt that his inclusion has generated and, if Warren is as "moderate" as some claim, he reaches out to gays and lesbians and listens to how appalled they are when their wanting to get married is compared to incest and pedophilia. I would not expect him to necessarily support gay marriage but I could hope he sees that words have consequences and his hateful and ridiculous comparisons are un-Christian.

Now, I am not holding my breath that this will happen. But I'd rather try this whole uniter thing and see whether it bears any fruit.

This is what Barack Obama is about - he has been saying that this is what he wants to do. He wants to unite, to bring together people of different opinions and political ideologies and religious affiliations and come to an agreement about moving forward. Contrary to a lot of the shouting, that is what this is about - moving forward. I don't like Rick Warren, but I don't like Al Sharpton, either, but I think that they both can be invited to the table.

"Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer" - Vito Corleone

http://thefiresidepost.com/2008/12/18/whats-the-matter-dont-like-actually-reaching-across-the-isle/

there is nothing Obama can do to unite the country, and frankly after watching the hatred spewed toward Bush, Conservatives, and Christians the last 8 years, why should we now support Obama? You don't need or want the 46% of americans that voted against Obama, and why on earth should we now support your side?
Sorry, it's not going to happen. You've got your president now, the rest of us will wait another 4 years.

"stillconservative" I guess if you care for your country at all, you will want things to improve. Whatever criticism (I don't spew hate) and even ridicule Bush has received, he has earned by his deeds.

Obama can not now say we should come together around Rick Warren who is an agent of hatred and intolerance. Obama could have chosen any of a number of mainstream christian leaders to give the invocation. But Obama chose to pander to the leader of a mega church and that is not change but more of the same.

Yes, Obama should reach out to the very right wing conservative Christians that have been trying to destroy him. (Still are)

Here's a list of what he should do for them;

1. Provide good, affordable health care to all Americans.
2. Ensure a clean environment, air, water and land.
3. Preserve the incredible beauty and grandeur of the National Parks and public lands.
4. Make sure Social Security is safe and strong.
5. Provide strong regulations and laws to curb abuses by investment banks, lenders, credit card companies, and 401k funds to protect America's private pensions as well.
6. Provide an adequate defense.
7. Work to reduce America's dependence on oil.
8. Start to eliminate the Strontium 90 of the Bush legacy from our national life.

These are the only things Obama owes anyone, the cons. included.

"Mr. Obama, you invited one of the most specifically homophobic "ministers" to take part in your inauguration.

How does angering 15% of America's population who is gay and lesbian help you?

You could have asked Reverand Lowery to take this major part in the festivities; that would have been positive, reaffirming, and not inclusive of any figure of hate against any group.

What are you thinking?

This would have felt to you the same way, as if a Presidential Elect, you voted for, would have asked David Duke, or someone from the Ku Klux Klan to take part, to take part in their inauguration.

You received really bad advice and you need to reconsider.

If I want another Ronald Regan, or right wing courting republican in office, I will vote for that, but I did not.

I voted for you, for a positive, not negative change.

Reconsider.

Steve"

Say hey!! Here, I thought Obama an intelligent man. Then what in the hell is he inviting a right wing evangelican preacher into the white house. I have had enough of the right wing ideology in the last eight years to last me a hundred years. Send him home, he doesn't need a national stage!! We sure as hell don't need his rhetoric. whiteagle38