{"id":193411,"date":"2008-12-17T20:56:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T01:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/17\/obama-throws-gays-under-the-bus-again\/"},"modified":"2008-12-17T20:56:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-18T01:56:00","slug":"obama-throws-gays-under-the-bus-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/17\/obama-throws-gays-under-the-bus-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Throws Gays Under the Bus&#8230;..Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img247.imageshack.us\/img247\/1120\/1019213010417vy9.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 380px; height: 598px;\" \/>Over a year ago, I <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/sorry-obama-is-engaging-in-dog-whistle.html\">called out Barack Obama for throwing gays under the bus<\/a> with his gospel concert in South Carolina, when he let an anti-gay bigot (who&#8217;s also &#8230; you know gay &#8230; but all better now really &#8230; no &#8230; really &#8230; he&#8217;s <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">all<\/span> better now&#8230;) take the stage &#8230; scratch that take <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">over<\/span> the stage&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;m <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">not<\/span> stunned and amazed:  He handled the McClurkin contraversy in the way most calculated to be hurtful, and now he<br \/>is <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2008\/12\/17\/rick-warren-to-give-inaugural-invocation\/\">having bigot Christo-Fascist<sup>*<\/sup> Rick Warren to give inaugural invocation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The PFAW president describes himself as <a href=\"http:\/\/site.pfaw.org\/site\/PageServer?pagename=media_2008_12_people_for_disappointed_rick_warren\">&#8216;Profoundly Disappointed&#8217; <\/a>by this development, and Atrios gives Obama the coveted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eschatonblog.com\/2008_12_14_archive.html#5668060090331453269\">Wanker of the Day<\/a> award.<\/p>\n<p>The good folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/warren-deliver-invocation-inaguration\">Right Wing Watch<\/a> have the scoop on just what this man has done and said, which includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Coming out vociferiously in support of Prop 8 stripping the right to marry from gays in California.\n<ul>\n<li>This also includes him <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">lying like a dog<\/span>, and saying that this would allow pastors to be arrested for sermons<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Declaring that marriage, abortion rights (anti), and stem cell research were &#8220;non-negotiable&#8221; issues for Christian voters.<\/li>\n<li>Has said that the difference himself and James Dobson is a just tone.<\/li>\n<li>He has compared abortion to the Holocaust.  <\/li>\n<li>Declared that those who do not believe in God should not be allowed to hold public office.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m a bit disappointed, but I am <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">far<\/span> from surprised, I expected some sort of backhand to &#8220;te gay&#8221; as a demonstration of &#8220;bipartisanship.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My gay friend who thinks that Obama sh%$s ice cream though&#8230;.I don&#8217;t know how he&#8217;ll rationalize this.<\/p>\n<p>If you are expecting a move on Don&#8217;t Ask Don&#8217;t Tell in the military before the 2010 elections, you are <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">sorely<\/span> mistaken.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">I could also use the term &#8220;Talibaptist&#8221;&#8230;.Your thoughts on which works better?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over a year ago, I called out Barack Obama for throwing gays under the bus with his gospel concert in South Carolina, when he let an anti-gay bigot (who&#8217;s also &#8230; you know gay &#8230; but all better now really &#8230; no &#8230; really &#8230; he&#8217;s all better now&#8230;) take the stage &#8230; scratch that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1142,967,1030,1021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-bigotry","category-lgbtq","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193411"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}