Watching Obama's political guru, David Axelrod, on "Meet the Press" on Sunday I found myself attempting to control my anger as he justified the invitation of Rick Warren to give the lead invocation at the inauguration. Quite honestly I was a little surprised at the depth of my feeling since I like Axelrod, a brilliant strategist, a lot. But when he proclaimed that...:
“You have a conservative evangelical pastor who’s coming to participate in the inauguration of a progressive president. This is a healthy thing and a good thing for our country. We have to find ways to work together on the things on which we do agree, even when we profoundly disagree on other things.”
What hit me as Axelrod was speaking was the infuriating realization that it is the LGBT community which is always expected to make the sacrifice in order to bring people together. We seem to be the very first ones that they consider neglecting in the name of a greater good. Instead, with Obama's victory, isn't it time that he put LGBT people in a position of visibility and tell the rest of the nation to grow up and get beyond the hatred of LGBT people? How powerful it would have been to have invited Bishop Eugene Robinson to give the invocation! What a message that would have been to the this nation and to the world that indeed a new administration has arrived and that it has zero tolerance for discrimination against LGBT people.
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