Obama Taps Anti-Gay Preacher for Inaugural Benediction (with Shocking Quotes)

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

191. O.K., here's how I will explain that, and this is my last word on the subject...

Look, here's how I feel about this: There have been Democrats who have made bigoted comments throughout their career. Even Joe Biden has said some stupid shit about minorities. Harry Reid. Others. It doesn't bother me.

Know what does? POLICY!!

I don't care what you may think about me or say about me as a black woman so long as at the end of the day, your voting record, your policies are not bigoted. Democrats and liberals are NOT above reproach. There is racism, anti-gay/lesbian, sexism, and all kinds of bigotry that exists on the political Left as it does on the political Right.

I have always believed, however, that it is the POLICY that is most damaging, not beliefs. Not words.

The pastor is an asshole. He is a bigot.

The president? There's NOTHING in his policy that is anti-gay, anti-LGBT, racist, or whatever. And where it does exist, I would hope that the president and the Democratic Party would work to eradicate that. I have faith that the president wants to do the right thing; has tried to do the right thing.

We should hold his feet to the fire when the POLICY goes the wrong way. A bigoted pastor? He can kiss my ass. A bigoted public policy ? Unacceptable.

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Just found this personal story about Cory Booker's transformation on this issue. I think it is worth the read:

Source: Salon


Booker used to be homophobic. Now he's not. What his evolution teaches us about change -- and acceptance

BY KATIE MCDONOUGH

Everyone loves Cory Booker. He saves people from fires. He opens his home to Sandy evacuees. He tweets about Hot Pockets. And now he is coming clean about his own homophobia during college — and how he struggled to overcome it. This guy!

The Stanford Daily, along with BuzzFeed, unearthed a 1992 Op-Ed in which Booker wrote candidly about his early homophobia and subsequent “tolerance phase,” a period during which he renounced his bias, but still felt personally disgusted by gay people:

I stopped telling my gay jokes. Fags, flamers and dykes became homosexuals and people of differing sexual orientation and, of course, I had my gay friend. But I was disgusted by gays. The thought of two men kissing each other was about as appealing as a frontal lobotomy.


The young Booker doesn’t pull any punches, either: “Allow me to be more direct, escaping the euphemisms of my past — I hated gays,” he wrote. “The disgust and latent hostility I felt toward gays were subcategories of hatred, plain and simple.”

But all of that changed after talking with a gay counselor during his freshman year:

Read more: http://www.salon.com/2013/01/10/cory_booker_i_hated_gays/