Toon: Rick Warren is a CUTER Kind of HATER!

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Aw, don't you just want to pinch his bigoted cheeks?!

Masheka and I went to the Light Up the Night for Equality March/Rally this weekend in Manhattan--it was supposed to be a silent candle-lit vigil for the couples in California who lost marriage equality rights, but it ended up being a much more lively and angry chanting type of thing, with lots of "Hey hey! Ho ho! Rick Warren has go to go!" and "2! 4! 6! 8! Separation of Church and State!" and so forth. Very cold but our anger kept us warm.

For more on Warren, see the Rachel Maddow video I linked to earlier, and this excellent piece in the LA Times by Katha Pollitt.

Also, this cartoon and this issue relate closely to my "The Milk Effect" cartoon, particularly to the line "Fuck tolerance for the intolerant."

Update: Laura Kiritsy, my editor at Bay Windows also alerted me to Derrick Jackson's "Obama's Bad Judgment on Warren". Here's a great quote that relates to my cartoon:

Warren waxed, "Now here's an interesting thing. There are about 2 percent of Americans, are homosexual or gay, lesbian people. We should not let 2 percent of the population determine, to change a definition of marriage that has been supported by every single culture and every single religion for 5,000 years. This is not even just a Christian issue, it's a humanitarian, a human issue."

A humanitarian issue! Like what? The corruption catastrophe in Zimbabwe? An earthquake in China? Hurricane Katrina? You have to be kidding. Invoking such imagery sunk Warren down into the pits with the late Jerry Falwell, who claimed that divesting from apartheid South Africa was inhumane. "Disinvestment will bring unemployment, unrest, anger and bloodshed," Falwell said.

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I'm really glad I'm not going to the inauguration anymore (though it might have been nice to do some protesting). I'm saddened and enraged and I'm not listening to one more word of that lying fake's goddamn audiobook.

Obama had the GALL to defend his choice of a hateful fundamentalist bigot who compares being gay to pedophilia and bestiality by talking about "diversity", "inclusivity" and "the magic of this country" or some nonsense. Really? REALLY? It's MAGICAL and INCLUSIVE to give a prominent role in your inaugural ceremony to a hatemongering misogynist bigot? This quote is priceless--and scary, as he indicates that the makeup of his inaugural is a foreshadowing of how he plans to govern:

That's part of the magic of this country, is that we are diverse and noisy and opinionated,” he added. “That's the spirit in which, you know, 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.”

Rick Warren doesn't just have nice little opinions he shares in a nice respectful way. Rick Warren was a MAJOR force in a successful campaign to discriminate against millions of Americans (Prop 8, obviously).

Also, Obama has the gall to claim he's still a "fierce" advocate of gay equality--apparently extending to allowing a gay marching band to participate in the festivities.

Where was his inclusivity and magic and diversity and fierce advocacy when he decided NOT to appoint any openly LGBT people to a cabinet or staff post in his administration?

Are any of you still full of Obama hopes and dreams? Hell, he hasn't even STARTED yet and I'm already sick to my stomach with Clinton deja vu.

Hate is not magical. Much much more analysis, links and so forth on this topic on Pam's House Blend.

Hope and change, my ass.