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Ben Smith's Blog — ... could possibly wish to know about him can be found on Radio Iowa's blog. Two-thirds of Illinois voters favor a special election. Obama is only the second Harvard Law alum elected President. You'll never guess the first. Incoming Attorney General Eric Holder's rise began in Pennsylvania. The Times has six pages on Obama's sometimes "Bushlike" press posture. Sargent offers a bit of a corrective. The Blade's editor goes after Rick Warren. And Emily Yoffe says Caroline isn't ...

Gay Activists Decry Pastor's Role in Swearing-In
The Caucus — ... Obama today. “And by inviting Rick Warren to your inauguration, you have tarnished the view that gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans have a place at your table,” Mr. Solomonese continued, adding that Mr. Warren had spoken out strongly in favor of a successful gay marriage ban in California and “has often played the role of general in the cultural war waged against LGBT Americans.” “This tone-deafness to our concerns must not be tolerate,” wrote Kevin Naff, editor of The Washington Blade , a gay-centered publication in the nation’s capital. Linda Douglass, a ...

Links for 2008-12-17 [del.icio.us]
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... for the Democratic governor to select someone. Gay leaders furious with Obama Barack Obama’s choice of a prominent evangelical minister to perform the invocation at his inauguration is a conciliatory gesture toward social conservatives who opposed him in November, but it is drawing fierce challenges from a gay rights movement that – in the wake of a gay marriage ban in California – is looking for a fight. ++++++ Will gay leaders protest? Boycott Obama? Obama's first big mistake - Rick Warren Speaking at Inauguration Rick Warren, ...

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. ...

More Warren Blowback
Shakesville — • The Blade Blog calls this Obama's first big mistake. • HRC sends a letter to Obama. • Steve knocks down some of the attempts to defend this selection politically, correctly concluding: "It's all risk, no reward." • And there is almost no concern about Warren being virulently anti-choice, despite the fact that he compares abortion to the Holocaust. "Of course I want to reduce the number of abortions," Warren told Beliefnet Editor-in-Chief Steven Waldman when asked if he was going to work with the Obama ...