Thursday, December 25th, 2008
Fairey / Obama Rift
Image: obeygiant.com
Shepard Fairey has publicly spoken out against President-elect, Barack Obama’s, decision to have Evangelical minister, Rick Warren, deliver the invocation during Obama’s inaugural address. In a message posted to his popular OBEYGIANT website earlier this week, Fairey said, “Rick Warren is against gay marriage and reproductive rights, and he does not believe in evolution (maybe he offers himself as proof of lack of evolution). I understand that Obama is trying to appeal to conservatives and evangelicals, but this move is symbolically a slap in the face to many people. Warren is not a uniter, but a divider… he is intolerant in many of his views. I still think Obama is the best choice for president, but I can’t condone Warren’s involvement in Obama’s inauguration, no matter how insignificant it is.”
In response, Fairey will be re-directing a portion of funds from his upcoming Obama inauguration poster to the movement to overturn Prop 8. Rather than pulling the porject all together, Fairey said putting money “into a cause I care about is actually more constructive. Plus, I wouldn’t want withdrawing the image to come across as a blanket boycott of Obama.”
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