latimesblogs.latimes.com - 12/18/2008
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No backing down whatsoever today from President-elect Barack Obama in the face of some strong criticism from gay and lesbian interests over his choice of Saddleback's Rick Warren for the invocation speaker at the Jan. 20 inauguration .
As pastor of his mega-church in Lake Forest, ...
boxturtlebulletin.com - 12/17/2008
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Rick Warren To Deliver Invocation at Inauguration What
Do You Want For Christmas? Rick Warren Exploits Paranoia...
To Defend Prop 8 Some of Rick Warren's Best Friends Are Gay... Newsweek's Debate Arson Suspected At Sarah Palin's Church, Gays Blamed DADT ...
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Some of Rick Warren’s Best Friends Are Gay…
thinkprogress.org - 12/18/2008
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Pastor Rick Warren will deliver the invocation at
President-elect Barack Obama’s inauguration on Jan. 20. While he...
is a recognizable celebrity and best-selling author, Warren also advocates a number of deeply anti-progressive views. He ...
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Anti-choice, anti-gay, pro-assassination pastor to give ...
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Instapundit —
... Liberals should not be surprised that Obama has refused to join an effort that implicitly brands a majority of the voters of California, of all places, as at best the dupes of bigots. But those liberals who are engaged in that effort should indeed feel snubbed–as they deserve to be.
Obama pretty much has to have a higher opinion of those California voters, since they voted for him! Plus, a Rickroll? Heh.
And, from Obama, “No backing down whatsoever.”
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Ann Curry to Rick Warren: ‘Are You Homophobic?’
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines —
... After the news that Pastor Rick Warren, who opposes gay marriage, will be giving the invocation at President-elect Barack Obama’s election, many gay Americans took offense. NBC’s Ann Curry point-blanked Warren about his politics for Friday’s edition of “Dateline NBC.” ...
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Obama has chosen Rick Warren , the right-wing Christian author and pastor of Saddleback Church, to given the invocation at his inauguration in January.
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