Obama picks Rick Warren to lead inaugural invocation

This caught my atten­tion this morn­ing.  Barack has picked Sad­dle­back Church pas­tor Rick War­ren to lead the invo­ca­tion at his inau­gu­ra­tion cer­e­mony on Jan­u­ary 20.

If you will recall, Rick War­ren stayed pretty much neu­tral dur­ing the elec­tion cycle, and invited both John McCain and Barack Obama to his church for a tele­vised forum.  War­ren asked some forth­right ques­tions also.  But not every­one is happy with his pick of Warren.

The pres­i­dent of the so-called Human Rights Cam­paign, Joe Solom­nese, sent a rather nasty let­ter to Obama call­ing his choice of War­ren a “gen­uine blow” to the gay and les­bian com­mu­nity.  Here’s a quote from Mr. Solomnese:

We feel a deep level of dis­re­spect when one of the archi­tects and pro­mot­ers of an anti-gay agenda is given promi­nence and the pul­pit of your his­toric nomination.

And a Cal­i­for­nia gay rights activist, Rick Jacobs, calls it a “huge mis­take”.   Fur­ther­more, Wash­ing­ton Blade edi­tor Kevin Naff calls it “Obama’s first mistake.”

All I have to say is:  Good.  I’m glad they’re angry.  I’m glad they’re ‘offended’.  I’m offended every day when I hear of a case where they are try­ing to push their agenda on a major­ity of Amer­i­cans who see homo­sex­u­al­ity as wrong.  I’m offended when I hear of kinder­garten teach­ers and school sys­tems try­ing to teach five– and six-year-olds that two dad­dies or two mom­mies is ‘nor­mal’.   Soci­ety has no place indoc­tri­nat­ing chil­dren — it is the par­ents’ place to teach them what is right and what is wrong.

Now don’t get me wrong.  I don’t hate homo­sex­u­als.  In fact, I don’t hate any­one (not even a lib­eral — haha).  I hate the acts they are com­mit­ting.  I hate their lifestyle.  And so does God.  He detests it.   Leviti­cus 20:13 says the following:

If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have com­mit­ted a detestable act; they shall surely be put to death. Their blood­guilt­ness is upon them.

Rick War­ren is not the only pas­tor out there who is against homo­sex­u­al­ity.  If a pas­tor is a true pas­tor, he is going to be against it.  The gay/lesbian com­mu­nity would be angry with any choice.  So get over it.

And to Obama:  Thank you.  You made a good choice.  I’ll actu­ally applaud you on this.

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