A Powerful Essay: 'Obama's Vision - He Doesn't See Us...'
My friend Karen Ocamb has written such a good essay on the Rick Warren controversy that I am just speechless. I'm going to post a few excerpts here then direct you to read it in its entirety on The Bilerico Project.
There's a saying in the 12 Step programs about being sick and tired of being sick and tired.
It's at this point - generally your own personal version of rock bottom - that you surrender and admit something has been screwing up your life.
Well - I guess that's where I am now. I'm sick and tired of hope.
Today - when it was revealed that Obama picked Rick Warren to deliver the Inaugural Invocation - I felt sucker-punched. I mean - after the (on-going) devastation of Prop 8 - this Inauguration was supposed to be something akin to breathing again...It's not that Obama thinks of this as a "Sister Souljah" moment as I first thought. The fact is - Obama doesn't think of us at all. The gays who might be near him are staffers who happen to be gay and for whom being gay is apparently not an issue. He doesn't see them as gay - and therefore he doesn't see us at all.
Greg note: BTW, I chose this illustration to go with the story because it just seems ironic now, not inspiring.
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