March 31, 2009

Obama-McClurkin-Warren-Meeks-Et-Cetera Redux: Are You Ready for Gay-Basher Tony Dungy on the Obama Jesus Team?

Never mind the fact that there should be no “faith-based” anything connected with our government — I don’t feel like ranting about that again today.

No, this is about Barack Obama throwing us under the bus, backing it up, and running us down again… and again, and again, and again…

Former NFL Coach Tony Dungy Invited to Join White House Faith Council

The White House has invited recently retired NFL Coach Tony Dungy, whose outspoken Christian faith fueled his 2007 support for a gay marriage ban and has won accolades from evangelical leaders, to join its Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, U.S. News has learned. The invitation is likely to draw praise from conservative evangelical groups and criticism from liberals and gay rights activists.

Dungy has long been active with evangelical Christian charities like the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and the Prison Crusade Ministry, along with other nonprofit groups, including Big Brothers Big Sisters and the United Way. Leading the Indianapolis Colts in 2007, he became the first black coach to win the Super Bowl.

The White House press office did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Officials with the Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships would not confirm the invitation to Dungy, but his publicist said rumors of the invitation in Washington were true. …

The soft-spoken Dungy sparked controversy in 2007 by endorsing an Indiana ballot initiative to ban gay marriage and similar legal arrangements for gay couples. “I feel like telling people when they look at this issue of same-sex marriage . . . I’m not on anybody’s side,” Dungy said at a 2007 banquet sponsored by the Indiana Family Institute, a conservative Christian group associated with Focus on the Family. “I’m on the Lord’s side.”

At the event, Dungy said he “embraced” the Indiana Family Institute’s support for the gay marriage ban. “IFI is saying what the Lord says,” Dungy said, accepting the group’s Friend of the Family Award. “You can take that and you can make the decision on which way you want to be.”

“We’re not trying to downgrade anyone else,” Dungy added. “But we’re trying to promote the family—family values the Lord’s way.” …

I don’t give a damn how well-liked Dungy might be — he’s one mean, cold, smug, arrogant, delusional, homophobic bigot.

And as for Obama… What can I say that I haven’t already said? A lot, but after spending more than a year trying to open people’s eyes, I gave up on worrying about anything Obama does unless it directly impacts me. (That’s not selfishness talking; I mean, I finally conceded the fact that whatever he’ll do, he’ll do, and nothing I say will ever change that — he doesn’t care what I think — so why waste the effort?)

And there’s plenty I’d like to say to however many remaining Obama worshippers there are out there, but I don’t see much point to that either. They’ll either finally admit that those of us on the Left — the real Left — were right about Obama and his to-hell-with-the-gays policy from the beginning, or they’ll continue to stick their fingers in their ears and run the ol’ “You’re just a racist!” diversion.

And why not? I’m sure — no, actually, I know — there are plenty out there still stuck in the groove of “It’s only ONE SONG!” and “It’s just a TWO-MINUTE PRAYER!”

Right. Whatever.

Posted by: Sapphocrat

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