The platform also opposes a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, and backs a repeal of the “don’t ask-don’t tell” policy that allows gays in the military only if they don’t go public with their sexual orientation.
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Obama’s transition Web site, includes a section under civil rights on “support for the LGBT community.” It says Obama backs federal legislation to protect groups including gays against hate crimes, fight workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation, and back full civil unions and federal rights for LGBT couples. … That’s the spirit in which we have put together what I think will be a terrific inauguration, and that’s hopefully going to be a spirit that carries over into my administration.” “That’s part of the magic of this country,” Obama said, that we are diverse and noisy and opinionated. Obama noted that civil rights leader Joseph Lowery, “who has deeply contrasting views to Rick Warren on a whole host of issues,” is also speaking at the inauguration.
Obama said in the news conference last week that his appearance at Warren’s church is part of the “dialogue I think is part of what my campaign’s been all about, that we’re not going to agree on every issue, but what we have to do is to be able to create an atmosphere where we can disagree without being disagreeable and then focus on those things that we hold in common as Americans.” It was during that appearance that Obama told Warren it was “above my pay grade” to define at what point a baby gets human rights.
Warren, author of a manifesto for Christian living called “The Purpose Driven Life,” also hosted Obama and Republican presidential candidate John McCain to his church on the same day for separate public interviews last summer. He also noted that he was invited to speak at Warren’s Saddleback Church, in Lake Forest, Calif., in the past, even though “I held views that were entirely contrary to his when it came to gay and lesbian rights, when it came to issues like abortion.” He called himself a “fierce advocate for equality for gay and lesbian Americans,” and said he would be consistent in that stand. Obama responded to criticism about the selection when asked about it at a Dec. 4 and says that California only recognizes marriage between a man and woman. Warren supported California’s Proposition 8, which passed Nov. It’s just … unfortunate and disappointing that Obama chose celebrity over inclusivity at the outset.” “He’s a celebrity within evangelical circles. “I think the reality is that he (Warren) was chosen by Obama primarily for one reason, one reason alone,” Madigan added. The disappointment, Madigan said, is that Obama “would select a person who actively campaigned against the rights of LGBT people at the same time that LGBT people were knocking on doors, making phone calls and giving their money to the Obama campaign.”
“I think the reaction is just one of a little disappointment,” Madigan said, that Warren is getting a prominent public role as Obama gets sworn into office Jan. Jim Madigan, interim executive director of the Equality group, which he said “advocates on behalf of the rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community,” was less harsh. “My question is, is he going to have a contingent of the Ku Klux Klan in the inaugural parade? He just doesn’t understand that being anti-gay is as vile as being anti-Semitic or racist.” “Frankly, we’re disgusted by this,” said Rick Garcia, director of public policy and founder of Equality Illinois, a gay rights group. Rick Warren, who was for a ballot proposition against same-sex marriage in California, do the invocation in next month’s inauguration ceremony is pandering to the right wing. An advocate for gays in Illinois says he thinks President-elect Barack Obama’s decision to have the Rev.
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