Inviting Rick Warren to speak at the Presidential inauguration is tantamount to inviting O.J. Simpson to speak at a women's shelter. When will the talking heads on TV (like Maddow) stop sugar-coating this turd?

Evan Wolfson guesstimates we will have Federal Marriage Equality in about 30 years (which would almost certainly require equality in employment and the military also).

So we need to either EMBRACE the fact that most of us over 40 will NOT see Full Federal Equality in our lifetime and remain "patient" as our civil rights crawl to the finish line...- OR - We could begin to TREAT the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT as it treats US.

Two American Myths:

* Equal Protection Under the Law (except for gays)
* Separation of Church & State (except when the law applies to gays or a woman's womb)

When Obama invited this "christian" to his speak at his inauguration, he invited a man who believes the Q-community are INFERIOR; "less than". Being asked to "respect other's opinions" doesn't fly when those "opinions" are harmful lies about an entire segment of the population. Those "opinions" are tantamount to the extremely offensive beliefs and ideas our country once had about "negros" and "wives", words and ideas that would NEVER FLY TODAY at an inauguration.

Words and ideas that would incite riots today.

The National Equality Tax Protest will be on Wednesday, April 15, 2009.

Let's show Rachel some love. She's taking a huge risk: that she might get shut up in a tiny little box like "our gay reporter, Trisha Takanawa". Instead, she blew out of the frame, showing that it isn't just LGBT people who are against Warren, it's smart, funny people who are against him.

Let's show her some love, please.

I don't have an issue with Rachel. I have an issue with bloggers like Bil saying that Warren is something we can live with.

As a US citizen I'm mad.

My government made me move to a foreign country because it wouldn't recognize my relationship. That's bad enough. Now to have this hate-monger invited by a President I thought would help bring me and mine home? It's infuriating. Absolutely infuriating.

Warren is the Obama team trying to play "smart politics"

Inviting Warren starts to silence evangelical critics.

Obama ignoring our objections ends their claims that he is in the pocked of the liberals.

My question for you, Maura, is why any of that is necessary?

Was it evangelicals who got him elected?

No. It was women, and LGBT people, and educated people, most of whom would not feel welcome or comfortable in Warren's congregation.

I agree that Obama might be playing politics, but I wonder how 'smart' it is to infuriate key parts your base right at the start.

It turns out that Warren is a supporter of Bishop Peter Akinola of Nigeria, who lobbied to pass the most draconian anti-gay laws outside of states under Sharia law.

Penalties of 5 to 15 years hard labour are imposed for offences ranging from two gays being in the same place to possessing material about HIV to actual sex.

All bets are off...whatever Warren may say for American consumption, where the power exists to do it he supports crushing and imprisoning us.

Disrupt the inaguration if he is on the podium. Bring DC to a halt.

We owe it to our brothers and sisters doing hard labour thanks to Akinola and his supporter, Rick Warren...

Having wasted a lot of TBP's electrons commenting on how Obama is playing a deep game and Warren is tactics, not strategy, I finally saw the light.

"It isn't the burglary, it's the coverup."

Fierce advocate my ass!

So here you are, thought that Obama would 'get it', because he is a member of a minority?

Yeah, he is, but it is a minority that has historically been anti-gay, and to some extent, anti-feminist. Black males have the same hang ups as white males when it comes to the sexes, and sex.

That is also not taking into account that he is just another slimy corporate party politico. The only difference is that he found a message that resonated well with the largest number of people, and he pretty well stuck to it. Remember Barnum and what he said about the American public? Well that applies just as well with politics as it does to show biz and hucksterism. Hell what is politics but a form of hucksterism.

And it doesn't hurt that he came along with his message at a time when the other corporate party was coming off an administration and president that is less popular than even Richard Nixon.

Sorry gang, Same old dog, just a couple of new tricks.

And does anyone else find it a bit disconcerting that Newsom falls all over himself to say that Warren isn't a bad person?

Not really surprising. Democrats have lots of trouble not calling Republicans and other bad sorts "bad people." Remember how Biden fell backwards over himself to compliment McCain in the VP debate.

But go Rachel. That's more analysis than I ever would have expected from the TV.