Reactionism

Reactionism. It has been on my mind lately. It came back as I turned on the news to find that the latest headline is "outrage" over Rick Warren being chosen by Obama to open the Inauguration with prayer.

The outrage being televised is that liberals are upset that Obama, who claims to be an advocate for gays and lesbians (yet who also ironically when asked, supports one-man-one-woman marriage and Biden outrightly says he's against gay marriage), would choose Obama an evangelical conservative who is pro-life, pro-hetero marriage.

However, I am equally certain that certain evangelicals are now convinced that now Rick Warren is a sellout to politicians and Jesus will come back even sooner. For them, it would be a different type of outrage.

So at what point does reactionism come full circle? Liberals ask for equality for all, and then have issues with a choice who Obama claims is part of his choices for diversity that represents the country for the Inauguration. And then conservative evangelicals cry out for evangelical involvement in the mainstream, especially politics, but not for the "wrong politician."

And from this article, an Episcopalian bishop in D.C.(?) claims that Warren is not a representative of the true loving God. I think that Obama and Warren would both agree with me that it is more about reconciliation. And that my dear brothers and sisters is also part of the story of our loving God, that we come together even while messed up and not on the same page...it's about disagreeing without being disagreeable--the same concept that many of us voted on Obama for.