Rick Warren
I just sent this e-mail to Barak Obama and I urge you to do the same. You can do so here:
http://change.gov/page/st/contact
Hello Transition Team:
First of all, congratulations on your well deserved win, President Elect Obama. I am very much looking forward to your new administration taking office in February and beginning to institute the changes in social, governmental and economic policy that this country so badly needs.
I am writing specifically today to comment on Obama's choice to include Rick Warren in his inauguration in February. I find this choice incredibly disappointing. I understand that Warren was invited to do the Inauguration Invocation to include a segment of the American population who's views differ in certain aspects from the upcoming administration's. I also respect Warren and his Church's right to hold these views in our country. However, I am very worried about the attention that Warren's homophobic opinions and actions to "cure" gays and lesbians will receive on Inauguration day and leading up to it.
I know that it might be politically difficult to rescind Warren's invitation, although I strongly hope that you do. If you cannot, I think inviting another pro-gay rights religious leader to do the invocation with Warren is the way to demonstrate the inclusiveness that this administration seems to care so much for.
I know that many other Obama supporters feel the same way about this issue. Please take some time to seriously reconsider Rick Warren's invitation.
Thank you.
http://change.gov/page/st/contact
Hello Transition Team:
First of all, congratulations on your well deserved win, President Elect Obama. I am very much looking forward to your new administration taking office in February and beginning to institute the changes in social, governmental and economic policy that this country so badly needs.
I am writing specifically today to comment on Obama's choice to include Rick Warren in his inauguration in February. I find this choice incredibly disappointing. I understand that Warren was invited to do the Inauguration Invocation to include a segment of the American population who's views differ in certain aspects from the upcoming administration's. I also respect Warren and his Church's right to hold these views in our country. However, I am very worried about the attention that Warren's homophobic opinions and actions to "cure" gays and lesbians will receive on Inauguration day and leading up to it.
I know that it might be politically difficult to rescind Warren's invitation, although I strongly hope that you do. If you cannot, I think inviting another pro-gay rights religious leader to do the invocation with Warren is the way to demonstrate the inclusiveness that this administration seems to care so much for.
I know that many other Obama supporters feel the same way about this issue. Please take some time to seriously reconsider Rick Warren's invitation.
Thank you.