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This seems like a bizarre bit of reasoning. Andrew Sullivan has discovered a "way out" for Obama regarding the Rick Warren controversy driven by the Left.

Would it not be appropriate for Obama to invite (Itzhak) Perlman's daughter and her wife to share the podium with her father? If the inaugural is to be inclusive, wouldn't it be a good gesture - and an olive branch to the gay community - to invite a lesbian married couple to the stage?

Perlman isn't performing alone, nor making a speech, so far as I can tell. Should Obama invite the families of the other three musicians? Perhaps they can all sit center stage and sort of hum along? I would call it a stretch but it's beyond that. I think it's broken.

Franklin, “The Queen of Soul,” will perform before Vice President-elect Joe Biden’s oath, and Obama’s oath will be preceded by a piece composed by John Williams for pianist Gabriela Montero, clarinetist Anthony McGill, violinist Itzhak Perlman and cellist Yo-Yo Ma, who has a spot on Obama’s iPod.

Comments

[SacTownMan]

Hey why not add a dwarf and a transvestite to add some more PC balance while he's at it!

[anon]

What do you expect from a POS, hysterical like Andrew Sullivan????????????

[Lala]

Now Obama's a bigot?

"'''Gays and lesbians are angry that Barack Obama has honored Warren, but they shouldn't be surprised. Obama has proven himself repeatedly to be a very tolerant, very rational-sounding sort of bigot"

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/michael-m-bates/2008/12/19/time-obama-very-tolerant-very-rational-sounding-sort-bigot

[syn]

I finally got rid of both cable (in NYC this also means network) TV, it was all so boring in a tiresome sort of way, so I don't care if someone if gay or not.

[Terry Gain]

This is a no-brainer. Invite Andrew and the boob to share the podium together. Kill two birds with two nuts.

[Jake]

I was going to be droll and say people need to mind their own business, but I like the dwarf tossing. Maybe have a contest to see who can throw a spitball into Henry Waxman's nose. A Blagojevich hair-look-alike contest with RuPaul singing "Hair".

[mark l.]

Sullivan could offer up that if his logic is muddled, it is a direct result of watching the Rosie O'Donnell Variety show.

We might as well just start providing disability for those who had the misfortune of watching it, and being struck with an incurable case of stupid.

[ET]

How have we let a small but vocal minority garner such attention? Americans treat homosexuals as equals, better than any other nation in the world. Yet the fanatics that claim to speak for all gays keep up their "in-your-face" tactics. And here we are debating the issue.

We need to ignore them. Like Cindy Sheehan and the code pink fringe, they will fade away.....

Message to the gay fanatic fringe -- Get over yourself...nobody cares. We have more important issues to deal with.

[Sergei]

In my opinion, AS(s) should retract his Trig stories before writing another article. But yet, who reads him anyway. Just stop reading him, he is no longer relevant.

[MarkJ]

Excitable Andy wants to give Obama a "way out." Unfortunately for Andy, His Majesty isn't interested in a "way out."

[Dave M]

The whole problem with having Rick Warren in that ceremony thing or whatever, is that agreeing with Obama's stated position on state recognition of gay marriage supposedly makes him a radical, overtly hatefull bigot. There's not even any subjectivity to it or room for benefit of the doubt as to motivation; If your position on the issue is not orthodox, you are OBJECTIVELY bigoted, and your motivation can ONLY be hatred. The idea of "balancing" something like this out by putting someone gay up there alongside the subhuman, xtianist monster just dosen't make sense in these terms. It would be like having David Duke hold the Bible when Obama's getting sworn in and saying that the presence of a black guy in the ceremony somehow "balances" it out.