Friday, December 19, 2008

Anderson Cooper moderates debate over Obama's anti-gay inaugural pastor

- via OMGblog.com

Personally, it makes me pretty angry.

First of all, I think a religious ceremony at the inauguration is completely inappropriate because of a little thing called separation of church and state. One of the reasons for the existence of the separation of church and state is just so the personal religious convictions of people in power doesn't serve to disenfranchise other Americans who might have different religious convictions or even none at all.

Second, I think Obama's defense of this guy is a pretty big f**k you to the GLBT community. But I guess it's not surprising, he's got a history of being in bed with these kinds of anti-gay religious figures.