firedoglake.com - 12/18/2008
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Note: I'll be on CNN at 3:10 with Rick Sanchez to discuss Rick Warren. If I do half as good as Hilary Rosen did last night on Anderson Cooper, I'll be delighted -- jh
Sarah Posner on Rick Warren :
Warren protests that he's not a homophobe; it's just that two dudes marrying, in ...
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com - 12/18/2008
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tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com —
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 ...
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Obama On Rick Warren Pick: We Have To Be Able To Agree ...
beliefnet.com - 12/17/2008
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beliefnet.com —
Steven Waldman Interviews Rick Warren Rick Warren, pastor
of Saddleback Church and author of "The Purpose of...
Christmas," spoke with Beliefnet Editor-in-Chief Steven Waldman at the offices of our partner, The Wall Street Journal. BY: Steven Waldman ...
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Rick Warren Purpose of Christmas Interview
hrc.org - 12/18/2008
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hrc.org —
12/17/2008 WASHINGTON Today the Human Rights Campaign,
the nation's largest gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender civil...
rights organization, sent the following letter to President-elect Obama on the selection of anti-gay reverend, Rick Warren, to ...
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Letter to Pres-Elect Obama on Choice of Rev. Rick ...
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Blog Reactions
A Liar And A Hater
Eschaton —
Perhaps that is an appropriate person to be America's Pastor.
Unacceptable
Suburban Guerrilla —
For Obama to invite Rick Warren to be part of his inauguration ceremony is, quite simply, disgusting. I’m so appalled, I don’t even know what to say. It would be the equivalent of John McCain asking David Duke to say a few words.
Obama’s Choice of Rick Warren is Inspired
PoliGazette —
... Jane Hamsher of the all-but-unreadable FireDogLake says that ""Inclusiveness" does not meaning putting whatever hatemonger you can find onto the program" and goes on to compare Warren to the Grand Wizard of the K.K.K., of all idiotic things. ...
More on Barack Obama, Post-Partisanship and Billy Graham 2.0
Comments from Left Field —
... of the chattering classes. There must be a (*cough*) less-divisive way for Obama to broadcast his message of inclusiveness, one that doesn’t require making a blood sacrifice on the altar of centrist credibility. ...
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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 ...
Obama Defends Rick Warren Choice
firedoglake.com 12/18/2008 — From CBS :
Mr. Obama himself responded to the growing controversy when prompted by a question during a news conference today designed to announce a trio of financial regulators. The president-elect stressed that he is a "fierce advocate for ...
Oh, and also
alarmingnews.com 12/20/2008 — SUCKERS: The Human Rights Campaign sent a blistering letter to Obama (D) in which it called the choice of Warren "a genuine blow" to gay Americans, who supported Obama overwhelmingly in his race against Republican nominee John McCain. The letter...
Rick Warren??
motherjones.com 12/18/2008 — This one puzzles.
Rick Warren is the pastor of the California-based megachurch known as Saddleback and the author of super-bestseller The Purpose Driven Life . He wins plaudits from mainstream media types and Very Serious People because he is ...
Rick Warren Surprises Nobody With His Support of Prop 8
rightwingwatch.org 12/17/2008 — Rick Warren is often considered one of the most influential leaders of the so-called "New Evangelical" movement that is working to expand the evangelical agenda beyond its anti-gay, anti-abortion traditions to embrace things like ...
Choice Of Rick Warren For Inaugural is Wrong
bitteranalysis.blogspot.com 12/19/2008 — Read about the divisive Rick Warren's controversial statements connecting same-sex marriage and pedophilia and incest; connecting legal abortions with the Holocaust; and his calling Christians who advocate a social agenda Marxists!
Check out the simple solution to this controversy.
Rick Warren Praises Himself
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 12/19/2008 — His statement:
"I commend President-elect Obama for his courage to willingly take enormous heat from his base by inviting someone like me, with whom he doesn't agree on every issue, to offer the Invocation at his historic Inaugural ...
Rick Warren Endorses Prop 8 (video)
youtube.com 12/17/2008 — http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rick-warren-surprises- nobody-his-support-prop-8"New Evangelical" leader Rick Warren comes out forcefully in ...
Obama Defends Rev. Warren Selection —
WSJ.com: Washington Wire 12/18/2008
Susan Davis reports on politics.
President-elect Barack Obama has come under fire from gay rights groups and others since the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies announced Wednesday that Rev. Rick Warren will give the ...
Obama on Madoff scandal, Rick Warren —
First Read 12/18/2008
From NBC's Athena Jones CHICAGO -- The $50 billion Bernard Madoff scandal that has rocked New York took center stage here at Obama's press conference this morning, as the president-elect pointed to the massive Ponzi scheme as another indication ...
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