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Obama Tells Gay Community to Respect Choice of Warren at Inauguration - FOXNews.com Transition Tracker
WASHINGTON -- President-elect Barack Obama made no apologies Thursday for asking evangelical pastor Rick Warren to give the invocation at his inauguration, a move that infuriated gays angry at Warren's support for California's Proposition 8 banning gay marriage. Obama said he and Warren don't ...
Rick Warren: "I love Muslims . . . I happen to love Gays and Straights"
juancole.com — I was in Long Beach,Ca. on Saturday for the annual conference of the Muslim Public Affairs Council , where Pastor Rick Warren and I were both headliners . Also appearing on the stage Saturday evening were Melissa Etheridge and Salman Ahmad, singing ... (more) Rick Warren: "I love Muslims . . . I happen to love ...
Pastor Rick Warren addresses Muslim group, emphasizes need to find common ground - Los Angeles Times
latimes.com — A council spokeswoman acknowledged that some members objected to the choice of the evangelical pastor as the keynote speaker. "We're always looking to work with unlikely partners, and I think he's a new kind of evangelical," said spokeswoman Edina ... (more) Pastor Rick Warren addresses Muslim group, emphasizes ...
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Rick Warren Interview with Ann Curry (video)
youtube.com — Rick Warren says gays are just immature because they give into their biological impulses. Is this the guy Barack Obama should have giving invocation at the ... (more) Rick Warren Interview with Ann Curry (video)
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Purpose Driven
Pundits Blog — ... ) President-elect Obama's selection of Rick Warren, pastor of the Saddleback Church and author of the mega-selling book The Purpose Driven Life , to give the invocation at his swearing-in has drawn howls from the far left. Warren is pro-life and believes that marriage should remain between a man and a woman. The horror! Moreover, Warren exercised his right as an American and participated in the democratic process by endorsing Proposition 8, a measure codifying marriage as between a man and a woman and supported by a majority of Californians. Why, how in the name of all ...

The ‘favorite lesbian blogstremist’
pandagon.net - we are the public option — ... strong stuff these days as their fourth-tier organizations scramble to do their end-of-year pickpocketing of wallets of elderly garden-variety “Christians” and brainwashed re-closeted homosexuals. Tyrants of Tolerance Go After Obama for Inaugural Choice Rick Warren Aberrant-sex activists demonize affable mega-church pastor as “homophobe” because he supported Prop 8 By blasting Obama for choosing Rick Warren as an Inaugural speaker — and demonizing Warren as a  ...

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firedoglake.com 12/24/2008 — Quick quiz. What's misleading about this item? Rick Warren is being attacked on the left because of his view on gay marriage -- especially after Barack Obama invited him to be part of the inauguration. The implication here is that Warren's ...
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Gay rights advocates are criticizing the president-elect's choice of Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his inauguration, saying it shows disrespect for a constituency that strongly supported his campaign.
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President-elect Obama defended his record on gay rights Thursday amid unhappiness by some liberal groups over Pastor Rick Warren's role in the upcoming inauguration. (CNN) — President-elect Barack Obama on Thursday defended his pick of ...
Pastor Rick in the Political SpotlightWSJ.com: Politics And Policy 12/18/2008
Rick Warren, who will deliver the invocation at Obama's inauguration, finds it's hard to be both America's Pastor and a Leader of Religious Conservatives, writes Steven Waldman.