On Barack Obama, Rick Warren, and Leading From Behind

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On Barack Obama, Rick Warren, and Leading From Behind

http://www.bilerico.com/2008/12/on_barack_obama_rick_warren_and_leading.php
Marla R. Stevens
December 24, 2008 12:00 PM

Peter Maurin, the French agrarian philosopher co-founder of The Catholic Worker movement, wrote several series of what he called "Easy Essays". Deceptively incisive in their rustic simplicity, frequently solipsistic, always elegantly spare poetic masterpieces stylistically comparable to Rembrandt's etchings in their everyman accessibility, one seems particularly apropos to the Obama style and his contradictory failure in moral thinking regarding LGBT people, civil marriage equality, and other issues we face that have led to the McClurkin and Warren gaffes. The essay, from Maurin's Looking for Leadership series, in its entirety, after the jump.