Rick Warren, Taffy, Katy Perry & Moral Toxicity

Obummer’s recent request that Evangelical Pastor Rick Warren deliver the invocation at his inauguration next month made jaws gape all over. The left took up arms after the announcement, saying that Warren’s positions on abortion and gay rights were out of the mainstream. The right encountered a mixture of dumbfounded-ness, pleasant surprise, and cautious suspicion over The Child’s motives.

The Great O is a super smart politician, and he seems to be sagaciously pandering to we Conservative religious folk and saying, ‘Hey! I’m not really a scary liberal dude!’. The LA Times mentions its belief that this overture to the Right comes from Obama’s belief that Democrats have suffered by being linked too closely with the gay and lesbian communities in the past.

This situation becomes perhaps more understandable, but slightly wackier when you add in Warrens’ own enjoyment of giving his own side a hernia on issues pertaining to the environment. The Times mentions Warren’s support for government caps on carbon emissions and his belief that man made global warming could spell our doom. He even attended the Hollywood premier of Albert Gore’s epic “An Inconvenient Truth” and apparently grew emotional over the whole business. So this portion of Warren’s being is highly to Obama’s liking, and why wouldn’t he want that kind caring progressive sort evangelical on display in his ceremony… implicitly on his side.

Why then is the left overwhelmingly having a cow over his selection? He doesn’t toe the Democrat line on every issue. Apparently, that’s exactly what’s required. Warren hasn’t been scared to say he’s pro-life and he was quite visible in the recent passage of California Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage in the state. What continues to annoy me about the way that liberal hosers do business… as in the case of Warren, when the Left disagrees with someone, they don’t chalk it up to honest disagreements, they brand the fellow a “homophobe”, “narrow minded”, or perhaps “a bigot”. A real irony for the party that brands itself a big tent inside which all the oppressed, weary masses from diverse backgrounds can enter into and find understanding.

Is there any group of people more uniformly odd than popular musicians?

Rod Blagojavich had kind of an interesting week. If you missed the news conference he held yesterday, in which he declared himself to be a sort of sojourner for the truth in the midst of a world out to get him, here it be.

I had an epiphany mere moments ago. There are a veritable cornucopia of female artists whipping up moral noxiousness today that got their start as Christian musicians. It’s emotional. Jessica Simpson started out in CCM, Natasha Bedingfield began singing with her brothers at church, and Katy Perry’s parents pastored a church. Perry’s hit single “I kissed a girl” was one of the most popular songs of the year with its epic worldview declaration “It feels so wrong, it feels so right…” Yikes. Lo, how a noxious worldview ere blooming.

Also, I hear these ladies praised for empowering women in their music videos? How in the name of all that is good and holy does that fly?! If it’s necessary to showcase and market thier beauty and sex appeal to sell records, it’s an admission that talent isn’t good enough. And if sex appeal is the only fallback that feminine empowerment has garnered us… where the blazes does that take us? Has anyone noticed what old age does to the human form? What happens when the beauty is gone? Who is empowered then?! Why can’t we place importance where it should be placed?!

Alright. I’m done. That developed.