Jewcy: Calm Down About Rick Warren!

I’ve grown a bit torn over the Rick Warren thing after chatting with my buddy Bullneck the other day. More on why in a later post. But for the most part, I’m still inclined to say this is a political move by Obama that will benefit gay rights if it helps him succeed with his plans for America. Even Harvey Milk, radical as he was, wanted to build bridges.

Jamie Kirchick at Jewcy agrees that we need to save our “gunpowder” and not “cry wolf”

“The person selected to deliver the invocation has the honor of serving as the spiritual representative for the entire nation,” writes Leah McElrath Renna. Perhaps I missed it, but there is no “spiritual representative” of our constitutional republic, and Renna does her cause no bit of good by ascribing such official significance upon a private citizen like Warren, a man whom most Americans did not know about until gay rights activists raised such a stink, and upon further investigation sounds like a pretty nice guy not deserving of all the insults heaped upon him. The uproar over Warren has the detriment of confirming one of the worst stereotypes of homosexuals: hysteria…

The problem for gay activists is that many Americans agree with Rick Warren when it comes to same-sex love. And these people, numbering in the over 100 million range, are not going to be budged in their views by hectoring activists who call them bigots (even though that’s what many of them are).

The Gay Community Needs to Calm Down About Rick Warren | Jewcy.com