[Sosfbay-discuss] FW: RE: From a CA Green Party Member re: Obama's invite to Rick Warren

[Drew Johnson]

---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: RE: From a CA Green Party Member regarding Mr. Obama's invitation
     to Rick Warren]
From:    "Scott McLarty" <scottmclarty at hotmail.com>
Date:    Sun, December 21, 2008 12:17
To:      jamboi at greens.org
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Lazy, ineffective Green Party: "This is an important issue.  Can we get
the party to issue a press release on it?"

Smart, effective Green Party: "This is an important issue.  Can we get a
couple dozen letters to the editor and op-ed columns submitted to
newspapers and news web sites, as well as a GP press release on it?"

Scott

PS Working on a release right now.

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> Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:40:04 -0800
> Subject: FW: From a CA Green Party Member regarding Mr. Obama's
invitation to Rick Warren]
> From: JamBoi at Greens.org
> To: scottmclarty at hotmail.com; usgp-media at gp-us.org
>
> This Green is requesting we put something out re: Obama choosing Pastor
> Rick Warren to give the inaugural prayer.
>
>
> Green is Multi!
>
> Drew
>
> ---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
> Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] [Fwd: From a CA Green Party Member regarding
> Mr. Obama's invitation to Rick Warren]
> From: "Gerry Gras"
> Date: Fri, December 19, 2008 15:35
> To: "GPSCC"
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> FYI,
>
> Gerry
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: From a CA Green Party Member regarding Mr. Obama's invitation
> to Rick Warren
> Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:17:11 -0800
> From: Shannon Q
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> Dear Ma’am or Sir;
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> I've recently been speaking to a number of friends in the LGBT community
> in my area and abroad, both directly and over electronic forums such as
> Live Journal, blogs and email. The majority of these friends are
> currently registered voters with the Democratic Party.
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> As you most likely know, President Ellect Obama has invited Rick Warren
> as a key member of his inauguration. Rick Warren was not only a
> significant champion of supporting Proposition 8 in California to take
> away the right to marry from same sex partners, he is also a publicly
> outspoken figure who vehemently equates same sex orientation to incest
> and pedophilia and contributed to a campaign of lies and slander against
> homosexuals (both as part of his efforts in the Proposition 8 campaign
> and before/after as well).
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> Politics aside on whether or not Mr. Obama supports gay rights or not
> (and he does not, despite his claims to the contrary. We’re either equal
> or we are drinking from another water fountain), the deep and dismissive
> insult to the LGBT community is inviting a man who spreads outright lies
> and slander regarding LGBT citizens of this country to act as a key
> speaker in a ceremony Mr. Obama ‘claims’ to be inclusive of everyone.
> The collaborative bigotry going on here is blatant and shameful. If the
> the head of the Aryan Nation or the Grand Dragon of the Klu Klux clan
> had been invited in Mr. Warrens place, no one would have the gall to try
> and speak about ‘differing perspectives’ or ‘inclusiveness’. Mr. Obama
> has willfully invited a hateful bigot to stand with him at a ceremony
> that is supposed to represent the entire nation.
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> In my discussions with my Democratic LGBT friends, I pointed out to them
> that the Democratic Party has historically courted the LGBT community
> for votes and support, however whenever it is the LGBT community who
> needs the support of the Democratic Party, the Party is suddenly
> reticent to make any kind of significant stand on germane issues, citing
> it to be 'too controversial'. I then invited all of them to come take a
> look at the values and stated platform of the Green Party, citing that
> the Green Party has the courage to unequivocally state that they support
> equality for all under the law, including those of same sex orientation
> and transgendered people. It was my hope to offer them a political party
> that really did stand for them and not one that was simply ‘the lesser
> of two evils’ (intolerance vs indifference).
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> I have been providing links to both state level Green web sites
> (www.cagreens.org being one of them) and the national site at
> http://www.gp.org . It was then that I felt a pit
> in my stomach. No where on the Green Party sites is the Rick Warren
> situation being discussed. So now I am writing you to ask that you
> rectify this oversight. As a Green, I and other gay Green Party members
> stand with you and for the Green Party platforms, all of them.
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> I am asking that the Green Party do the same.
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> Thank you for your time,
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> Shannon Mathew Quintero
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