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Anti-choice, anti-gay, pro-assassination pastor to give inaugural invocation.
Think Progress —
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 supported California’s anti-gay marriage Proposition 8 and has likened gay marriage with polygamy and incest. He is strongly anti-choice, and has equated abortion to the Holocaust. Warren also supports the assassination of foreign leaders. Appearing on Fox’s Hannity and Colmes on December 3, Warren agreed ...
John Aravosis: Leaked Obama Transcript Explains Rick Warren Decision
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... and the chair of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, US Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA):
BARACK OBAMA: So who we gonna have do the invocation at my inaugural?
DIANNE FEINSTEIN: Oh my God, you're gonna love this, B.
BO: Okay Di, hit me.
DIFI: Ready? Rick. Warren.
BO: You mean conservative evangelical Christian leader Rick Warren?
DIFI: Yup.
BO: Rick Warren who wants to ban all abortions and basically said that I support a holocaust?
DIFI: Uh huh.
BO: The guy who ...
Rick Warren
The Mahablog —
... Warren isn’t just a walking insult to LGBT Americans; he’s a walking insult to our species, especially women. What Warren represents makes my skin crawl. His presence in the inaugural program is particularly galling to religious liberals, who have been vilified and marginalized for years by the so-called “Christian” Right. And then to have religion represented by this creep at the inauguration … . well, yes, people are angry. This is certainly understandable. ...
The Warren Factor
Matthew Yglesias —
... Rick Warren post to my colleague Matt Duss:
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 supported California’s anti-gay marriage Proposition 8 and has likened gay marriage to polygamy and incest. He is strongly anti-choice, and has equated abortion to the Holocaust. Warren also supports the assassination of foreign leaders. ...
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 ...
Rick Warren engages in a form of Holocaust denial
pandagon.net - we are the public option —
... who engages in a common form of Holocaust denial. It’s not the traditional form we’re used to hearing about---people who claim the Holocaust didn’t happen or that it wasn’t widespread---but it is serious nonetheless, in no small part because it’s common and people who engage in it are taken seriously, as Rick Warren is. ...
Symbolism and the Rick Warren pick
Newshoggers.com —
... The same Rick Warren who said
abortion is akin to the Holocaust. (I suppose, by inference, that
makes the women that made that choice and the health care workers that
participated akin to the Gestapo?). The same Rick Warren who ...
Joe Cutbirth: I Voted (twice) for Obama, and Apparently I Lost
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... and likens those who support a woman's right to reproductive choice to perpetrators of the Holocaust, is every bit as offensive to me as ...
Choice Of Rick Warren For Inaugural Is Wrong
Bitter Analysis —
... But there's another side to Dr. Warren. The Christian Post website stated, "Attempting only to make abortions “rare” is not much different than saving some of the Jews during the Holocaust when all could be saved, according to megachurch pastor Rick Warren." Warren himself is quoted as saying, “For these people who believe life begins at birth, all right, at conception, it’s an American holocaust. They believe that there’s 40 million people who should be here." Comparing legal abortions to the Holocaust is absurd and is indicative of someone with a not quite hidden ...
Bruce Wilson: Colson: Nixon Would Have Loved Rick Warren Plan, George W's In Too
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... "If nothing else, Rick Warren is a miracle worker in the realm of public relations. He is a man who compares legal abortion to the Holocaust and ...
