In my third post on the issue, Beware of Snake Oil Salesmen, I decided I wasn’t over-reacting and I now believe that Rick Warren went to see Melissa Etheridge and family to put a more media-friendly spin on his anti-gay sentiments. It was a purely political play kumbaya moment to take some of the heat off of himself.

I am willing to concede that a 90 second prayer is no comparison to the policy and law changes that will either come from the Obama administration or there won’t be a second one. I hope that this is more Obama’s way of calling out Warren to tell him that he had better walk his talk and make some moves to the left and that his religious views don’t belong in civic discourse nor in civil rights and civil law.

Even though I don’t like this one bit, I still believe Obama is for gay civil rights even though I also believe he may be having a little personal trouble dealing with his own feeling about gay rights. He’s obviously not uncomfortable around gays and lesbians. He granted a long interview with Rachel Maddow, an out and proud lesbian and mainstream political analyst with MSNBC for her show. They seemed very comfortable talking with each other. He knows she’s a lesbian because it had to be in her file that had to be reviewed by the secret service before she was ever allowed to meet with candidate Obama. She doesn’t hide that fact in the least either.

Michelle Obama seems to have no such reservations when it comes to gay rights and gay equality. She will be our most staunch ally in the White House when Barack Obama is less than fully on board with us. He listens to her and she will make him understand exactly what a failure to work on our rights will cost him. Being bi-racial and raised in Hawaii, a very racially mixed and multicultural state, Barack did not grow up in the same circumstances that his wife and her family faced in the mainland states. She experienced first hand what it means to be considered a second-class citizen. I don’t believe he experienced that much during the formative years of his life if he ever has experienced it at all.

it is an abomination that warren is speaking at this inauguration. i worked so hard to help get barack obama into the white house, and now it feels like his first act on his first day is to give the finger to the whole queer universe. it’s sad, and it’s surprising.

jackie sheeler’s last blog post..is rick warren insane? or simply retarded?