By FRANK RICH
New York Times
Published: December 27, 2008
You can’t blame V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire, the first openly gay Episcopal bishop and an early Obama booster, for feeling as if he’d been slapped in the face. “I’m all for Rick Warren being at the table,” he told The Times, but “we’re talking about putting someone up front and center at what will be the most-watched inauguration in history, and asking his blessing on the nation. And the God that he’s praying to is not the God that I know.”
Since he’s not about to rescind the invitation, what happens next? For perspective, I asked Timothy McCarthy, a historian who teaches at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and an unabashed Obama enthusiast who served on his campaign’s National Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Leadership Council. He responded via e-mail on Christmas Eve.
After noting that Warren’s role at the inauguration is, in the end, symbolic, McCarthy concluded that “it’s now time to move from symbol to substance.” This means Warren should “recant his previous statements about gays and lesbians, and start acting like a Christian.”
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When Republicans make statements that are absurd, ridiculous, and hateful - they are so vilified, that the Republican party often requests they leave their office or position and find obscurity to their liking. Mr. Robinson can make a stupid statement that is without a doubt infantile in its simplicity and attack - and he is promulgated as some sort of truth-sayer by Rich.
Sidebar:
I should confess to something, once and for all, finally - I like to cuss. If I were alone on a desert island, I would cuss all day long for days on end. To be completely honest, I would probably also use 2-3 syllable words after a month of cussing - just to keep my mind from turning to mush - but until then, I would cuss and enjoy it.
Cussing is not in itself a sign of a lower life form, nor is it an indication the speaker is a toothless dwarf from the hills. Cussing in conjunction with other behavior would be a better indicator of said concern.
Only certain cuss words can adequately frame what Robinson said, well. I would really enjoy using a whole lot of them right now, but will refrain from doing so.
1) Robinson knows there is only one God. If there were two, he would be worshipping a liar.
or
2) If Robinson knows a God that is any different than the God that Warren prays to he is also calling the One God a liar and or a fraud.
or
3) If Robinson believes Warren is praying to a different God and Robinson is praying to THE God, then Warren must be praying to the antithesis of all Robinson believes in and prays to (THE ONE God) - in other words, Warren is praying to Satan.
Mr. Robinson, it is you who your own church has attempted to expel. Your own church has nearly broken up, your pews stand empty compared to ten years ago - your flock has flown, most often to Lutheran or Catholic churches. The Anglican church has debated what to do about its unruly Episcopalian branch - all because of you sir, and Mr. Warren is the one who is praying to the wrong 'god'. If that were not bad enough, now a professor at Harvard is lecturing Warren about changing his attitudes and becoming Christian.
If Robinson was not clear enough, McCarthy made it crystal clear - Warren worships the wrong god!! To be a good Christian, you must, as McCarthy suggests, completely change your view and accept the LGBT platform.
Talk about scary. Religious leaders are now lectured by the misinformed and ignorant about what it is to be a Christian - they must adopt and accept whatever it is they are told to accept.
How very odd.
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