crooksandliars.com - 12/18/2008
—
Say,what?
President-elect Barack Obama's swearing-in ceremony will feature big names like minister Rick Warren and legendary singer Aretha Franklin, the Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies announced Wednesday. Warren, the prominent evangelical and founder of the Saddleback Church ...
Aretha Franklin to Participate in Inaugural Ceremony
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com 12/17/2008 — Dr. Rick Warren of the Saddleback Church, Elizabeth Alexander, an African-American poet, and some of the world's premier musicians, including Itzhak Perlman and Yo-Yo Ma, will also share the podium with Barack Obama.
Prop 8 Homophobe Rick Warren to Deliver Inaugural Benediction
oxdown.firedoglake.com 12/17/2008 — In another Donny McClurkin moment , magnified by the context of this historic inauguration, the Joint Inaugural Committee has chosen Prop 8 homophobe and noted religious nutcase Rick Warren of the Saddleback Church and Store™ to deliver the ...
Obama Inauguration: Rick Warren To Deliver Invocation
huffingtonpost.com 12/17/2008 — Pastor Rick Warren, who hosted a Saddleback Church Forum attended by both Barack Obama and John McCain, will deliver the invocation at Obama's inauguration.
David Brody of CBNNews adds :
Pro-life pastor Rick Warren will give the invocation at ...
Obama's Rick Warren pick irks liberals
swamppolitics.com 12/17/2008 — by Frank James
Well, that didn't take long.
The congressional committee putting together the inauguration earlier this afternoon announced that the program for President-elect Barack Obama's inaugural would include an invocation by Rick Warren, ...
Obama picks anti-gay, anti-choice pastor for inauguration ceremony
feministing.com 12/17/2008 —
Obama has chosen Rick Warren , the right-wing Christian author and pastor of Saddleback Church, to given the invocation at his inauguration in January.
Dr. Warren, author of "The Purpose Driven Life," will deliver the invocation. He will be ...
Rick Warren to Give Inaugural Invocation
thepage.time.com 12/18/2008 —
Obama's committee releases list of people participating in ceremony , including the leader of California's Saddleback Church.
Civil rights leader Joseph Lowery -- who worked closely with Martin Luther King Jr. -- will deliver benediction.
...
Not the Religious Left
weeklystandard.com 12/18/2008 — So the president-elect has asked Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his inauguration. It’s an interesting decision. Warren, a Southern Baptist, is pastor of Saddleback, the evangelical megachurch in Orange County, Ca. When I was at the church ...
Obama's Rick Warren Kerfuffle —
Little Green Footballs
Barack Obama’s attempt to pander to evangelical social conservatives (or his attempt to “reach out” to them, depending on your point of view) has gotten him in trouble with gay rights groups, and today he’s doing damage control: Obama defends choice of evangelical pastor ...
Obama Chooses Warren to Deliver Invocation —
Drudge Retort
President-elect Obama's choice of Saddleback Church pastor Rick Warren to deliver the inauguration invocation has drawn a fierce backlash from gay groups over Warren's support for California's anti-gay marriage Proposition 8.
Obama on Rick Warren: Let's come together —
The Swamp
by Frank James
At his press conference this morning, President-elect Barack Obama addressed the criticism of his liberal supporters who are outraged that he asked well-known evangelical preacher Rick Warren of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif, to deliver the invocation at his ...
Rick Warren —
The Mahablog
There is much weeping and wailing on the Left today, because Rev. Rick Warren, God Nazi and pastor of the fundie Saddleback Church, will give the invocation at the inaugural .
“Your invitation to Reverend Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at your inauguration is a genuine blow to LGBT ...
links for 2008-12-18 —
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog
Obama's first big mistake - Rick Warren Speaking at Inauguration
Rick Warren, conservative author of “The Purpose Driven Life” book series and pastor at the Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Cal., will deliver the invocation at Barack Obama’s inauguration next month. This is change? ...
Gay Activists Mad About Warren —
Little Green Footballs
Barack Obama picked evangelical minister Rick Warren for the invocation at his inauguration, and gay activists are furious .
Barack Obama’s choice of a prominent evangelical minister to perform the invocation at his inauguration is a conciliatory gesture toward social conservatives ...
DAY'S END ROUNDUP —
News
The announcement that Rev. Rick Warren of Saddleback church will deliver the invocation at President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration has some liberals fuming, while Iraq's ambassador to the U.S. earns plaudits from conservatives for telling a D.C.-based protest group that Iraqi journalist ...
Rick Warren To Deliver Invocation at Inauguration —
Queers United
The New York Times’ Katharine Seelye has is reporting that Rick Warren, the pastor at Saddleback Church, has been chosen by President-elect Barack Obama to deliver the invocation at the inaugural ceremony. This is the same Rick Warren who recently said that the relationships of his “many gay ...
Bigotry You Can Believe In —
Open Left - Front Page
Wow.
President-elect Barack Obama's swearing-in ceremony will feature big names like minister Rick Warren and legendary singer Aretha Franklin, the Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies announced Wednesday.
Rick Warren, the prominent evangelical and founder of the Saddleback Church ...
Obama Defends Rev. Warren Selection —
WSJ.com: Washington Wire
Susan Davis reports on politics.
President-elect Barack Obama has come under fire from gay rights groups and others since the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies announced Wednesday that Rev. Rick Warren will give the ...
Inauguration: The purpose-driven controversy? —
First Read
The news yesterday didn’t seem controversial at first… “Aretha Franklin and Dr. Rick Warren, an evangelical minister of the Saddleback Church, are among the select group of people who will participate in Barack Obama’s inaugural swearing-in ceremony ...