Having given it a fair amount of thought, what Obama SHOULD do at this point [View All]

[Lerkfish]

Obama painted himself into a corner, I'm afraid, this Warren thing was (I suppose) meant to placate right wing evangelicals, but legitimately offends the GLBT community (and many of us not in that community).

so... now what? If he un-selects warren, he'll have pissed off the right wingers he was apparently trying to include, and IN ADDITION will stoke their already existent hatred of gays into an even more irrational vitriolic hatred of gays.

That's no good either.

Pragmatically, the only solution I see at this point is to do one of the following:

1. select an openly gay clergy to co-hold the invocation -- this is more feasible than many might think, just have them both give a short prayer. The downside of this is if they are both christians, then no other religion is included)

2. Get a whole panel of clergy from all religions, and atheism, with a healthy amount of GLBT clergy among the mix, to do a NON DENOMINATIONAL "blessing" or whatever term would be best.
IMHO, this would be the BEST solution, and would signal DIVERSITY and INCLUSION, and would put the right wingers on the spot because they couldn't very well object and it would sufficiently dilute anything Warren would have gained from being the sole blesser.


This does not in any way attempt to tell any GLBT'er how to feel, in fact I'm upset about his original choice, too.
This is just a way to suggest an alternative that might affect the most healing in this situation.


if you agree, please recommend.

if you disagree, that's fine, too.