Rick Warren / Obama Inauguration Protest

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A Note From Phyllis Huster

           

 

            Click here to support our protest during ObamaÕs Inauguration when Pastor Rick Warren Speaks

 

Dear Friends, Members of the LGBTQI Community, Gay Allieds, PRO-Choice Advocates and Members of the Jewish Community:

 

My name is Phyllis Huster and I am saddened to recognize that the Obama administration is actually sending the LGBT community back 20 years because of itÕs continued policy blunders as regards our community.  I write this letter in honor of Harvey MilkÕs activist underpinnings, we are asking people attending the Obama Inauguration to engage in a peaceful and nonviolent protest of the Rick Warren 2 minute prayer with the use of WHISTLES and AIRHORNS to disrupt and prevent his prayer from having power.  This is a positive way to demonstrate our power to demand equal rights for all Americans, not just those outside the LGBT community.  This also hurts the pro-choice and Jewish community because Pastor WarrenÕs bigotry seems to know few boundaries.


President Barack ObamaÕs LGBT Community Policy Blunders:

  1. Obama put Rev. Donnie McClurkin on stage during his campaign, McClurkin, a known anti-gay bigot who says heÕs been changed from gay to straight.  Outcry from our community was ignored by the Obama campaign.
  2. Obama & Biden team both admitted they donÕt support Gay marriage, feeding fuel to the CA Prop8 fight resulting a 52% support for Prop8, stripping 18,000 CA gay couples of their right to marry. 
  3. The Obama transition team has chosen Pastor Rick Warren of the Saddleback church to give the invocation at the inaugural ceremony.  Pastor Warren is on record as stating anti-LGBT community, anti-semite and anti-Choice views and his church is known to advocate ÒcampsÓ where they send gay kids to be converted to being straight. (see below)
  4. The Obama transition team supports Govenor Tim Kaine of Virginia for DNC Chair, a man on record against gay marriage and against civil unions rights for gays.

 

If you are attending the Obama Inauguration and would be willing to blow a Airhorn or Whistle to Protest during the 2 minutes Pastor Warren is speaking, please put your First name and last initial and your town: (i.e. Phyllis H. Snoqualmie, WA) in the email below.

 

            Click here to support our protest during ObamaÕs Inauguration when Pastor Rick Warren Speaks

 

Or, if you are not attending the inauguration but support this protest email us as well.

 

** Also, I encourage folks to go and sign the open letter in support of LGBT rights nationwide on before January 10th

            http://jointheimpact.wetpaint.com/

 

Evidence of Pastor Rick WarrenÕs Bigotry:

The evidence against Rick Warren is astounding.  Here are the 5 main reasons why we in the LGBTQI community feel he is an unworthy choice for 2 minutes on stage when the entire world is watching ObamaÕs inauguration.

 

  1. Rick Warren feels being gay is a choice. Outcome: This leads to the direct outcome of gay youth suicides and religious Ôconcentration campsÕ to convert gay youth to being straight.
  2. Rick WarrenÕs Saddleback church has as recent as this month (December) made it clear that gay people were not welcome at his church. Proof: "someone unwilling to repent of their homosexual lifestyle would not be accepted at  a member at Saddleback." – Rick Warren Video: http://www.americablog.com/2008/12/rick-warren-pulls-anti-gay-language.html
  3. Rick Warren compares gay love to bestiality, incest and pedophilia. Proof: "The issue to me is... I'm opposed to redefinition of a 5,000 year definition of marriage. I'm opposed to having a brother and sister being together and calling that marriage. I'm opposed to an older guy marrying a child and calling that marriage. I'm opposed to one guy having multiple wives and calling that marriage."  - Rick Warren Video: http://politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/7900
  4. Rick Warren and Pres. Elect Obama have both worked actively to support the CA prop8 Consititutional ballot initiative which ultimately passed, wiping out rights to marry for 18,000 LGBT couples and setting the LGBT community back in terms of basic equality rights for all. Proof:

Obama and Biden NOT SUPPORTING MARRIAGE:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4nTCCwOCuo

*** Warren SUPPORTING Prop8 Doing a Video before CA PROP8

http://www.democraticunderground.org/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x251256

 

Other YES on Prop8 CA Gay Marriage Lie based VideosÉ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8j2y9WtTPw&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-jc4ujp9Ok&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PgjcgqFYP4&feature=related

 

  1. Top Gay Supporters comments on Rick Warren Appointment:

 

Barney Frank:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-barney-frank/obamas-choice-of-warren-i_b_152239.html

ÒI am very disappointed by President-elect Barack Obama's decision to honor Reverend Rick Warren with a prominent role in his inauguration.

 

Religious leaders obviously have every right to speak out in opposition to anti-discrimination measures, even in the degrading terms that Rev. Warren has used with regard to same-sex marriage. But that does not confer upon them the right to a place of honor in the inauguration ceremony of a president whose stated commitment to LGBT rights won him the strong support of the great majority of those who support that cause.Ó – Barney Frank

 

Andrew Sullivan:

http://friends-of-jake.blogspot.com/2008/12/prop-8-rick-warren-and-obama.html

 

ÒWarren is a man who believes my marriage removes his freedom of speech and cannot say that authorizing torture is a moral failing. ... if anyone is under any illusion that Obama is interested in advancing gay equality, they should probably sober up now. ... pandering to Christianists at his inauguration is a depressing omen.Ó – Andrew Sullivan

 

Andrew Sullivan wrote on the Atlantic Web site, "[It's] shrewd politics, but if anyone is under any illusion that Obama is interested in advancing gay equality, they should probably sober up now." – Andrew Sullivan

 

Denis Dison, Press contact Victory Fund www.victoryfund.org

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/OBAMA_GAYS?SITE=CARIE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=USHEADS.html&CTIME=2008-12-23-23-18-39

"It felt like a double punch to the gut," said Denis Dison of the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund, which supports openly gay political candidates. "People were afraid at that moment - we didn't know what it portended for the administration ahead." – Denis Dison, Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund

 

Joe Solomnese, Human Rights Campaign www.hrc.org

"[W]e feel a deep level of disrespect when one of architects and promoters of an anti-gay agenda is given the prominence and the pulpit of your historic nomination," Solomnese wrote.Ó – Joe Solomnese

http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/12/gay_group_calls_warren_choice.php

** In a letter written by Joe Solomnese to President Obama:

 

ÒLet me get right to the point.  Your invitation to Reverend Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at your inauguration is a genuine blow to LGBT Americans.   Our loss in California over the passage of Proposition 8 which stripped loving, committed same-sex couples of their given legal right to marry is the greatest loss our community has faced in 40 years.  And by inviting Rick Warren to your inauguration, you have tarnished the view that gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans have a place at your table.

 

Rick Warren has not sat on the sidelines in the fight for basic equality and fairness.  In fact, Rev. Warren spoke out vocally in support of Prop 8 in California saying, "there is no need to change the universal, historical definition of marriage to appease 2 percent of our population ... This is not a political issue -- it is a moral issue that God has spoken clearly about."  Furthermore, he continues to misrepresent marriage equality as silencing his religious views. This was a lie during the battle over Proposition 8, and it's a lie today.

 

Rev. Warren cannot name a single theological issue that he and vehemently, anti-gay theologian James Dobson disagree on.  Rev. Warren is not a moderate pastor who is trying to bring all sides together. Instead, Rev. Warren has often played the role of general in the cultural war waged against LGBT Americans, many of whom also share a strong tradition of religion and faith.

 

We have been moved by your calls to religious leaders to own up to the homophobia and racism that has stood in the way of combating HIV and AIDS in this country.  And that you have publicly called on religious leaders to open their hearts to their LGBT family members, neighbors and friends.

 

But in this case, we feel a deep level of disrespect when one of architects and promoters of an anti-gay agenda is given the prominence and the pulpit of your historic nomination.  Only when Rev. Warren and others support basic legislative protections for LGBT Americans can we believe their claim that they are not four-square against our rights and dignity. In that light, we urge you to reconsider this announcement.Ó – Joe Solomnese, HRC

 

If you would like to speak to me, please feel free to email me below

 

Phyllis@nettone.biz

 

I look forward to updating this page with the # of Supporters who send me emails and we have 15 days to get thousands to support this protest. Thank-you for your time and efforts to support.