"Gang" member and State Senator Ruben Diaz of The Bronx came out and made a statement praising Barack Obama's decision to stick with homophobe Rick Warren for the invocation at the inauguration next month. He was happy to see someone that is wary of teh gay such as himself get up and stand in front of millions billions and have them as a captive audience for a few minutes. Well I am sure plenty of people love this "reaching out" to the right, but Diaz still doesn't get it.
From The Daily Politics:
"To some people, if you oppose homosexual marriage and abortion, you are not a Democrat and you are certainly not be invited to deliver an inaugural invocation.""To those people, it does not matter how hard you fight to protect human services by creating job opportunities for your community, bringing low income housing to the poor, fighting against the closing of health services, protecting the immigrants, and opposing the Governor of the State of New York and the Mayor of the City of New York for cutting needed services when they try to balance their budgets on the backs of the poor and less fortunate families and senior citizens."
"By rejecting the call to dis-invite Reverend Warren and by welcoming him to deliver the inauguration ceremony’s invocation in Washington, DC, Barack Obama has sent a message of inclusion...that we should be welcome all the time, not only to be used when they want our votes, support and participation in coalitions to benefit others.
Diaz needs to find a dictionary, because if he is talking about inclusion, the Senator should know that in the Democratic party, we fight for civil rights for all, not just certain minorities. Now, not all Democrats have to agree with abortion and the right for everyone to be able to get married. I'm sure there are plenty out there, such as Mr. Diaz. Yet our party needs solid direction from its leaders. The ideal of equality for all is something to strive for, not to set aside so that we can pretend to be harmonious with people like Mr. Warren.
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