Personal Responsibility

If you take every penny you have and put it on the craps table in Las Vegas, one roll of the dice could leave you broke.

Or rich.

Either way, it's your responsibility. There have been grumblings that perhaps the Federal government will step in to solve the Madoff debacle. It would be a huge mistake, in my opinion. People who bet everything on one person had to know there was a real possibility that they would lose.

Just like at the craps table.

Which brings me to our esteemed president-elect Obama. Rick Warren, a serious homophobic bigot, will be delivering the invocation at the inauguration.

Nice.

Some have claimed it is the responsibility of the Inaugural committee. I disagree. It is the personal responsibility of the man at the top. As Pam Spaulding said, "the buck stops with the man at the top of the food chain."

She's right.

This is a moment of setting a tone for the administration. While I understand Obama's message has been to bring everyone in under the Big Tent, to hear all voices and to have them work together, there are other evangelical, fundamentalists who are far less rabid about LGBT issues- and women's choice issues- than Warren.

While it is not the end of the world, or my hope for the Obama presidency, I do feel the tire tracks of the bus I've just been thrown under.

And it doesn't feel good.