What's the deal, Barack?

He hasn't even been sworn in yet and already he's given me cause for concern. Rick Warren, are you kidding me? Barack has chosen the anti gay marriage /anti choice /anti stem cell research pastor of Saddleback church to give the invocation at his inauguration.

I've never understood why Bible thumpers feel the need to have everybody else play by their rules or why they cherry pick verses from the Bible and ignore others. The pooftas aren't out in force making sure that no one gets divorced even though they have scripture on their side. Ricky and his followers pick and choose translated version of the scriptures as if they were written by God himself. (Masculine God because we're dealing with bible thumpers) It is well known by educated folks that while Lev 20:13 says man shall not lie with man, it says nothing about women. Party on Ladies! Just remember that in Deuteronomy it says you can't wear dude's clothes. Oh yeah, don't forget that you're not supposed to prepare food for the men when you're menstruating.

This so called man of God has stated that if same sex marriages are legal then the next "logical" step will be pedophiles marrying children, incestuous marriages, inter species marriages, and of course polygamy. Polygamy was common place in biblical times. I some religious leaders just like to gloss over that part. Several arranged marriages took place where an adult male was wed to a pre-teen. Not that I'm in favor of that it's just that it didn't used to be taboo. You know a lot things written in the Bible teach great lessons in morality, especially the parts like "do not judge lest ye be judged, do unto others as you would have them do unto you, and mind your own God Damn business! Oh, I'm sorry that wasn't in the Bible. At least not the King James version. It may have been in some of the chapters that wasn't canonized.

Mr. Prez elect please tell me that you're working an angle here. Tell me that you've got some master plan and this controversial decision is a part of it. The right is royally pissed that Warren is going to give the invocation at Obama's inauguration. They can't believe that their modern day Billy Graham is going to give his blessing to that liberal Chicago politician that pals around with terrorists and supports a woman's right to choose. Then on the other side of the equation: the left (especially the gay left) is up in arms about this choice because so many busted their asses (no pun intended) to help get pro gay rights/pro choice Obama elected. Only to have that man choose one of the most vocal proponents of Prop 8. After that crushing defeat Obama has just opened the spout on a Mortons iodized and poured it directly into their wound.

So, what's the deal? Is this a sign that the "change" candidate is a phony? He seems to be of two minds on the whole same sex marriage question. While on one hand he supports gay rights but on the other he says that marriage is defined by the union of a man and a woman. True, but (I'll use the Reverends logic here) that broad description opens the door to Brothers and Sisters marrying as well as Fathers and Daughters.

Is this decision a tempest in a tea pot, or a revealing look at how Obama will govern? I certainly hope that Mr. Obama isn't the typical politicians who campaigns for one thing only to deliver another after being elected. (See-"W") Is he smarter than all of us and wants to show the intolerant that their way is very un-Christian like, in which case he probably should have stated something to that effect. I hope that this is a calculated move designed to bring us together as a nation, and not his first mis-step as president. Maybe he's thinking that if he can't make everybody happy so he'll just piss everybody off and by doing that the offended will commiserate and find common ground.

DaG out