Comments on: President-Elect Obama, You’ve Disappointed Me (Update 2: More Action)

By: Dana Baptiste

Dana Baptiste — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 02:18:53 +0000

And one more thing — I think I am totally pagan too. Can I be pagan and Christian? :)

By: Dana Baptiste

Dana Baptiste — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 02:18:05 +0000

Great response. Very valid issues. ANd we live in a country where it is our right and responsibility to watch our leaders and question their actions; oh and hold them ACCOUNTABLE for the promises they made.
And I am with you. I know of plenty of Christian leaders who espouse love, kindness, and CHrist-like acceptance of others. Of course there are many AMericans who are right now scratching their heads with a look of disbelief on their faces . . .
I am a hippy/yogi/straight/mom/buddhist christian who aks why is ANYONE still in this day and age espousing these hateful words? But ALL my beliefs tell me that in order to erase hatred in the world we must erase it — all of it — in ourselves.
That’s CHristian, Buddhist, Yogic, and Neo Pagan! AND its also just common sense.

By: Saintless

Saintless — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:57:43 +0000

I don’t think it’s hypocritical in the least for me to stand up for what I believe in. I do think it would be very hypocritical of me to not say when I disagree with Obama. I’m not saying that I don’t support him, or that I’m against him. I just think this was a bad choice, and the more we make it known when we disagree with him, the better our future will be. As I said above, I’ve always known I would disagree with Obama on some things.

It wouldn’t have taken a “hippy/new age/lesbian/neopagan priestess” to find a religious leader who is more open in their beliefs. There are PLENTY of Christian leaders out there who don’t compare being gay to being a pedophile. I take *serious* objection to that comparison.

If I sit back, and don’t speak up when I disagree with Obama, because I chose him to lead us, I would be the type of person I despise.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:45:56 +0000

His choice reflects his religion. that is all. He is a christian and like it or not the majority of christian preachers agree with warren. All of you stood up for Obama when they were attacking him for his association with Jeremiah Wright. Why attack him now for being associated with another person who doesn’t believe as he does. it is hypocritical at best. I understand that you would like to see someone much more open in their beliefs but if we took it to that extreme he could have chosen some hippy/new age/lesbian/neopagan priestess that would pray to Baphomet for his blessing on our new president. Now that would be even worse in the current political climate. Even though my beliefs a pagan in nature I would not expect him to choose someone that believes as I do.

While I agree with your ideal of a world where all are treated with equality and people can live and love with whomever and however they with be it man and woman or man and man or woman and woman in monogamous and/or plural relationships. I say let the man have his priest as we know he is still the man we chose to lead us toward that ideal.

By: Eric Ethington

Eric Ethington — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:04:56 +0000

This is a prime example of the turner-around thinking of “Straight-America.” The inauguration is a time when Obama will give the country a sampling of what his administration will be like. In that light, it’s absolutely vital that he puts forward a unified front that match up with his own beliefs, as well as his administrations beliefs. The pick of Rev Warren truly was a slap in the face, as it shows that Obama thinks that his point of view is ok too. It’s not, and having an open dialogue with the country is enormously different than giving a bigot a national pulpit, at an event which promises to be one of the most watched of all time.