WTF?!

I was intending to post today with a happy update about our appointment yesterday with the midwife, but hearing the news that Ob*ma choose R!ck Warr.en to give the invocation at his inauguration has replaced my happy feelings with feelings of deep disappointment and sadness (don’t worry, I  am still very happy about Sprout).  I know I don’t need to get into a long rant here about this, but I just can’t bring myself to believe it.  Or I don’t want to.

I assume you know who R!ck Warr.en is, but if you don’t, he is an evangelical preacher in CA who was outspoken in his support for Pr*p 8.  He equates LGBTQ people with pedophiles and perpetrators of incest.  To him, gay marriage is comparable.  Now, its not like this comparison is new, and frankly I can’t care too much about what R!ck Warr.en thinks.  What I care about is that Bar.ack Ob.ama has chosen him to participate in this incredibly important, historic event.  The Ob.ama camp has said that they want the inauguration to be inclusive and while Ob.ama does not agree with Warr.en’s views on gay and lesbian rights, there are things that they do agree on.  I know in my heart that if Warr.en replaced “LGBTQ” with ANYother group, there would be no way in hell he would be participating in the inauguration.  Can you imagine?  ”Sure, he thinks Jewish people/Black people/people with disabilities/illegal immigrants/Asian people/Muslims/etc are the same as pedophiles and sex offenders, and while we don’t agree, there is a lot of common ground between us. ”  Yeah right.

I was so hopeful about Ob.ama, and now I just feel foolish for believing that everything would be different.  I have always known that he does not support marriage equality and that was a huge hurdle to me getting excited about him in the primaries.  But I got caught up in the surge of hopefulness and belief that our country was changing.  Of course, that belief was tarnished by the passage of Pro.p 8, and now this.  It all just makes me feel sad and tired.  I have gone from feeling excited and teary about Obam.a to wary and teary about Obam.a.  I am angry because L and I worked to get him elected.  We went down to PA to canvass, we made calls to VA, we  believed in him.  It feels like a kick in the face.