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Rick Warren to Give Inaugural Invocation
thepage.time.com - 12/18/2008
Rick Warren to Give Inaugural Invocation
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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. Aretha Franklin, Itzhak Perlman and Yo-Yo Ma ...
politico.com - 12/17/2008
Gay activists furious with Obama
— politico.com — Rick Warren, Obama’s pick to give the inaugural invocation, backed the California ban on same-sex marriage.... (more) Gay activists furious with Obama

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Rick Warren to give inaugural invocation
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com - 12/17/2008
Rick Warren to give inaugural invocation
— politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com — Rick Warren hosted a presidential forum in August. (CNN) — 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 ... (more) Rick Warren to give inaugural invocation

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andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com - 12/17/2008
Ugh
— andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com — Rick Warren will give the invocation at Obama's inauguration. Warren is a man who believes my marriage... removes his freedom of speech and cannot say that authorizing torture is a moral failing. Shrewd politics, but if anyone is under any illusion that ... (more) Ugh

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FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog:  California Proposition 8 Supporter and Anti-Gay Marriage Pastor Rick Warren Selected to Deliver Invocation at Barack Obama Inauguration

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California Proposition 8 Supporter and Anti-Gay Marriage Pastor Rick Warren Selected to Deliver Invocation at Barack Obama Inauguration
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... Barack Obama has chosen the founder and senior Pastor at California’s Saddleback Church, Pro-Life, conservative Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his inauguration. Warren is nationally acclaimed pastor and author of the New York Times bestselling “The Purpose Driven Life.” He previously announced  his support in favor of Proposition  8, California’s Protect Marriage Act that passed in November and restored the traditional definition of marriage (one man and one woman).  ...

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