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Obama Inauguration: Rick Warren To Deliver Invocation
huffingtonpost.com 12/17/2008 — Pastor Rick Warren, who hosted a Saddleback Church Forum attended by both Barack Obama and John McCain, will deliver the invocation at Obama's inauguration.
David Brody of CBNNews adds :
Pro-life pastor Rick Warren will give the invocation at ...
Ugh
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 12/17/2008 — 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 ...
WTF?
shakespearessister.blogspot.com 12/17/2008 — Oh, Obama. We were getting along so well, and then he had to go and do something like choose Rev. Rick Warren to give the invocation at his inauguration, who, not two weeks ago , was seen hanging out with Sean Hannity and mistaking the Bible for the ...
Homobigot Rick Warren to deliver invocation at inauguration
pandagon.net 12/17/2008 — by Pam Spaulding
I can understand the selection of Rev. Dr. Joseph E. Lowery, a revered veteran of the civil rights movement co-founder with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, to deliver the ...
Obama picks anti-gay, anti-choice pastor for inauguration ceremony
feministing.com 12/17/2008 —
Obama has chosen Rick Warren , the right-wing Christian author and pastor of Saddleback Church, to given the invocation at his inauguration in January.
Dr. Warren, author of "The Purpose Driven Life," will deliver the invocation. He will be ...
Rick Warren is a major fail and a total affront
americablog.com 12/18/2008 — Throughout the campaign, there were a few times when I was irritated with the Obama campaign, but I have never been so angry with Obama and his staff. By choosing homophobic Rick Warren , who helped pass Prop 8 in California, to speak at the ...
Leah McElrath Renna: Rick Warren, Obama? Really?!?!
huffingtonpost.com 12/18/2008 — Progressive groups are decrying the choice of Rick Warren to deliver the Invocation at the Presidential Inauguration as "disappointing" - but it is far more than that. It is an act of spiritual violence against lesbian and gay American citizens and a ...
The Warren Invocation
balloon-juice.com 12/18/2008 — Obama is going to have Rick Warren give the invocation at his inauguration , and this has a lot of people upset. A sample :
This selection is clearly not about “change”—it’s about making a high profile decision to give ...
Gay Group Calls Obama Invocation Pick A "Genuine Blow"
marcambinder.theatlantic.com 12/18/2008 — Joe Solomnese, the president of the Human Rights Campaign, has sent a blistering letter to President-elect Obama, accusing him of delivering a "genuine blow" to the gay community in choosing Rev. Rick Warren to give the formal invocation at next ...
Gay Obamaniacs just got punk’d
gaypatriot.net 12/18/2008 — Rick Warren will bless Obama’s inauguration .
Warren is hardly a fan of gay rights, which Obama supposedly champions, as can be seen in this interview:
h/t Good As You
Where’s that hopeandchange liberal gays claimed I ...
Rick Warren?
dailykos.com 12/18/2008 — Rick Warren is offering a prayer at the inauguration of Barack Obama? Was there some reason the transition team couldn't find someone who wasn't a homophobe ? Warren dodged Waldman's question about whether he supported civil unions or domestic ...
Responding on Warren
politico.com 12/18/2008 — The spokeswoman for the transition, Linda Douglass, responded to criticism from gay leaders and others of Rick Warren's role at the inauguration, Nia reports :
A spokeswoman for President-elect Barack Obama defended the choice of Rick Warren to give ...
Obama On Rick Warren Pick: We Have To Be Able To Agree To Disagree
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 12/18/2008 — Obama, at his presser today, defends the decision to choose Rick Warren to deliver the invocation as his inauguration with a restatement of his commitment to gay rights and, more broadly, to the principles of unity that have been a hallmark of his ...
Not the Religious Left
weeklystandard.com 12/18/2008 — So the president-elect has asked Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his inauguration. It’s an interesting decision. Warren, a Southern Baptist, is pastor of Saddleback, the evangelical megachurch in Orange County, Ca. When I was at the church ...
Obama Defends Rick Warren Pick
blogs.abcnews.com 12/18/2008 — ABC NEWS' SUNLEN MILLER REPORTS: At this morning’s press conference at the Drake Hotel in Chicago, President-elect Obama was asked about his choice of Pastor Rick Warren to give the invocation at his swearing-in during the inauguration - a choice...
Rick Warren Thinks He Isn't Anti-Gay; He Isn't Not Wrong —
Politics Daily
Pastor Rick Warren, the subject of a huge controversy involving his selection by Barack Obama to give the inaugural invocation, posted a video on his website to whine about the media and protest his innocence. He also went on a gay field trip/photo op to buttress his moderate cred. Watching ...
Attacks From the Left Benefit Obama and Rick Warren —
Politics Daily
As you might recall, about a week ago I posted a blog about how some conservatives would be turned off by Rick Warren's decision to give the invocation at Barack Obama's Inauguration . Since that time, however, Rick Warren and Barack Obama have been attacked by pro-homosexual forces, who ...
"Drop Rick Warren" Campaign —
Queers United
Efforts are underway to have Obama rescind his invitation to anti-gay preacher Rick Warren of the Saddleback Church. Pastor Warren fiercely supported proposition 8 (overturning equal marriage rights in California), his church engages in "ex-gay" therapy, and bans openly homosexual members. He ...
The Last Word on Rick Warren? —
David Corn
'Tis the season, so....
I was on Rachel Maddow's show on Friday night, discussing the Rick Warren wrangle. What a surprise, we agreed--mostly. But she seemed to think that the Warren controversy could remain the story of the inauguration from now until January 20. I noted that it was clear ...
Hitchens on Rick Warren —
Little Green Footballs
Christopher Hitchens seems a bit disappointed to find Barack Obama engaging in the same sort of pandering that caused him to bail out on John McCain: If we must have an officiating priest at the inauguration, we can do much better than Rick Warren .
It is a fact that Rick Warren, pastor of ...
Why Knot? —
The Latest on Air America
When Pastor Rick Warren steps up to the microphone to deliver the invocation at Barack Obama's inauguration as the 44th President of the United States, the world's television cameras will pan the surrounding dignitaries--Senators, members of Congress, diplomats--then they'll focus on the faces ...
From The Department of Dubious Complaints —
Outside The Beltway | OTB
I’ll concede that those who are upset about Rick Warren giving the invocation at Barack Obama’s inauguration have a point when it comes to his views about homosexuality, but this complaint seems a bit beyond sanity:
I’ll grant that appointing a creationist to give the invocation is ...
Two Protests Planned at Rick Warren's Church —
Queers United
In response to Obama choosing anti-gay Pastor Rick Warren to speak at the inauguration, and over Warren's Saddleback Church endorsing proposition 8, there will be 2 upcoming demonstrations. The first is being organized by Gays United Network for this Sunday, December 21st. Lake Forest, CA ...
Rick Warren: "Gay Are Immature And Promiscuous" —
Queers United
News headlines broke earlier in the week with the announcement that President-elect Barack Obama had chosen anti-gay pastor Rick Warren to be part of the inauguration. This alone sparked a media frenzy and anger from liberal and LGBT organizations. Now in an interview with NBC's Ann Curry, ...
We don’t give a DAMN how you do it up north —
Cold Fury
Fighting words:
It is just as well that Barack Obama is emulating Abraham Lincoln by traveling to his inauguration in Washington by train. As the regional politics of the automobile bailout controversy demonstrate, the Civil War continues. If the major U.S. automobile companies go under, it will ...
Obama Defends Warren Pick —
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines
Stressing the need “for Americans to come together” even when they disagree about particular issues, Barack Obama responded on Thursday to the outcry over his decision to give Pastor Rick Warren the honor of delivering the invocation at Obama’s upcoming inauguration ...
Obama, Rick Warren and Gay Marriage —
The Corner on National Review Online
I have a new story up on the flap over Barack Obama's decision to invite Rick Warren to give the invocation at the Obama inauguration.
"Define marriage," Pastor Rick Warren asked Barack Obama at the "Saddleback Civil Forum on the Presidency," held last August at Warren's Saddleback Church in ...
Inauguration: The Warren controversy —
First Read
Rick Warren, the evangelical pastor whose inclusion at Obama’s inauguration has upset gay-rights supporters, released this statement last night: "I commend President-elect Obama for his courage to willingly take enormous heat from his base by ...
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