Obama Chooses Reverend Warren

Gay leaders are acting all diva on President-elect Obama over his choice of Reverend Rick Warren to preside over his invocation at the upcoming Presidential inauguration.

Warren is Senior Pastor at Saddleback Church in Southern California, which is somewhat ironic because isn't saddleback a term used to call a certain gay sexual position? If it is, it comes with absolutely no solace for the President of Human Rights Campaign, Joe Solomonese.

In a terse letter fired off to Obama, Solomonese stated that, "your invitation to Reverend Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at your inauguration is a genuine blow to LGBT Americans. We feel a deep level of disrespect when one of architects and promoters of an anti-gay agenda is given the prominence and the pulpit of your historic nomination.”

Warren opposes abortion rights, however has taken more liberal stances on the government role in fighting poverty, and backed away from other evangelicals’ staunch support for economic conservatism. It’s his support for the California constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage, however, that drew the most heated criticism from far left Democrats Wednesday.

My suggestion remains that we, as a constitutionally secular nation, get out of the government sanctioned marriage business altogether, and allow any two people to enter into a civil union. The newly unified couple would then have an option to have their civil union be blessed as a marriage in the church of their choosing.

Marriage is a religious privilege that's granted by a church body.

Civil Unions are just plain simple civil rights.