Can’t Win for Losing
December 22, 2008
“Can’t Win for Losing”
is a phrase meaning that things would be going great for you if they weren't
going so badly.
I have a feeling that
Pastor Rick Warren of the Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California
could feel exactly 
that
way at this moment and all because he actually has a cordial relationship
with President-Elect Barack Obama.
He has been invited to
give the invocation at the Inaugural Ceremony on January 20th, 2009 and
his selection by the soon to be President has the gay community virtually
ballistic because they see him as the enemy personified and they are zapping
the President-Elect selecting him because of his stance on gay marriage.
Then I read on the web
today an article
by the Associated Press on MSNBC and its headline reads “Rick Warren's
critics include other evangelicals”, and the sub head reads “Many feel
he's not conservative enough, even as gays call him prejudiced.”
I am sure that Rick Warren
is actually only interested in God’s opinion and the fact that two so diametrically
opposed groups are throwing verbal bombs at him is likely not a concern.
I find it amusing that these groups are both taking potshots at Rick and
it is possible that he and President-Elect Obama are also enjoying the
irony.
As for me my view is in
complete accord with the President-Elect on the gay marriage issue.
I do not like the term marriage attached officially to the civil union
of two persons of the same sex. However, the term civil union I find
perfectly acceptable.
The issue is about property
rights between two people, and the right to survivorship and dependency.
There simply is not any argument that I can accept as rationale that would
deny same sex couples the same rights as married men and women.
I have always maintained
that the gay community gone after the rights and not the title that the
issue would die of natural causes and eventually the name would have evolved.
Any time you have two
polar opposites swinging at you I think the odds are good that your position
in the central is a winner. The above scoreboard then actually only
supports the theme, and not the political fortunes of the two primary targets.
