There's been lots of chatter today about Team Obama inviting honestly gay Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson to deliver the invocation for Sunday’s kickoff inaugural event on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, but nobody seems to have spotted the impressive politicking afoot.
The sad tale of Rev. Goat-tea's fall, after the fold.
- Some villager of the Religious-Industrial Complex (That's a tender subject. Another Vanderslice, anyone?) suggests Warren AKA Rev. Goat-tea
- Obama was charmed / bamboozled / ensorcelled by Warren at the Saddleback Forum, and agrees with said villager
- Goat-tea gets top billing and all hell breaks loose in Left Blogistan, which spills over into the Legacy Media
- Team Obama, fully aware they cannot dis-invite Warren, does cold political calculus, determines that a reach-around from evangelicals is worth pissing off the real queers, and so does nothing
- Goat-tea, incapable of restraining his morbidly obese ego, puts his foot smack in the middle of the Anglican Schism shit-pile (hat tip to Box Turtle Bulletin)
- Team Obama finally figures out that Warren was about as well vetted as Palin, starts to get worried about pissing off that large, Dem-leaning group known affectionately as Whiskeypalions, who are NOT amused with the Warren / Akinola / Schism linkage and Goat-tea's overt meddling (Note to Warren apologists: That "No guilt by association" defense? BUSTED!)
- Team Obama does cold political calculus, invites +Robinson to open the Inauguration festivities, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, no less! (Shades of MLK's "I Have A Dream" speech, delivered from those very same steps! A symbolic uniting of the currently contentious GLBTI & African-American factions of the Obama base, perhaps?)
- Outcome of #7? Legacy Media gets hold of story about Goat-tea's meddling in another denomination's internal affairs that simultaneously couples him very tightly with the psycho Ankinola & his draconian anti-gay measures, thereby giving Obama a neatly packaged way to distance himself from Warren AND to make nice with the GLBTI community!
- Warren is history, GLBTI folk are sufficiently mollified to allow Obama enough room to actually move gay rights forward, and Gene Robinson replaces Goat-tea as the face of Christianity in the Obama administration.
Fucking brilliant...
(Hat tip to WineRev for his terrific "MN-Sen Events" series, from which I stole the idea of Cliff Notes)