A leading black conservative pastor and political activist says the high level of anger in the homosexual community over president-elect Barack Obama's selection of Rick Warren to give the invocation at his inauguration next month "shows the nature of the culture war we are in."
Bishop Harry Jackson, Jr., of the High Impact Leadership Coalition says although he voted for John McCain in the presidential election and disagrees with Barack Obama's stances on abortion and homosexuality, the president-elect made an "appropriate" decision to pick California pastor Rick Warren to pray on Inauguration Day. "I think that it says to us that Obama understands the divide among people of faith and that he is going to make a sincere attempt at following through with the kinds of overtures that he made to the faith community as he was running for office," he notes. "So, I think it says a lot about Barack." He believes the controversy over Pastor Warren also says a lot about the homosexual community. "What's being revealed in this process is that the intolerance of the radical left is coming out. They want to be received and tolerated, but when someone takes one little overture like praying a prayer at a major event, they can't take it," he points out. "And whether we like it or not, this man Rick Warren has become the next generation's Billy Graham." The Washington-based homosexual activist group Human Rights Campaign is demanding that Obama commit to a "five-step legislative blueprint for change" to make up for his selection of Rick Warren. That "legislative blueprint" includes, among other things, signing "hate crimes" legislation into law within six months, supporting the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (often referred to as "ENDA"), repealing the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, and issuing an executive order providing special protections for federal workers based on their sexual behavior and gender identity.
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