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tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com - 12/18/2008
Top Liberal Group Hammers Decision For Rick Warren To Deliver Obama's Inaugural Invocation
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This isn't going to help dispel the "Obama stiff-arming liberals" narrative. The news today that bigoted pastor Rick Warren is going to give the invocation at Barack Obama's inauguration is sparking an uproar on the left, with the latest being that the venerable liberal group People For The ...
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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cbn.com - 12/18/2008
Pro-Lifers Rip Rick Warren on Obama Invocation
— cbn.com — So let me get straight to the point. Liberals and gay activists aren t happy with Barack Obama for choosing pro-life and prop 8 supporting pastor Rick Warren to give the invocation at Obama s inaugural. But pro-life readers seem to be equally upset at ... (more) Pro-Lifers Rip Rick Warren on Obama Invocation

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tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com - 12/18/2008
Obama On Rick Warren Pick: We Have To Be Able To Agree To Disagree
— 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 ... (more) Obama On Rick Warren Pick: We Have To Be Able To Agree ...

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Gateway Pundit:  Gay Activists Saddlebacked-- Rick Warren Will Give Obama's Invocation

Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines:  Rick Warren Tapped for Obama’s Inaugural Invocation

Southern Appeal:  From the unintentionally funny department

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Gay Activists Saddlebacked-- Rick Warren Will Give Obama's Invocation
Gateway Pundit — ... to Obama's Christianist choice: 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 Obama is interested in advancing gay equality, they should probably sober up now. He won't be as bad as the Clintons (who, among leading Democrats, could?), but pandering to Christianists at his inauguration is a depressing omen. A top liberal group hammered Obama for inviting this Christian pastor to give the ...

Rick Warren Tapped for Obama’s Inaugural Invocation
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — ... by now of Obama’s whole “team of rivals” strategy for his upcoming tenure in the White House, but it’s still startling to hear that Pastor Rick Warren of Saddleback Church, home of the notorious “cone of silence” interviews with Obama and John McCain last August, is going to give the invocation at Obama’s inauguration on Jan. 20. This news has triggered a dismayed reaction from various groups, such as People for the American Way, who issued a statement criticizing the choice on Wednesday. ...

Rick Warren Tapped for Obama’s Inaugural Invocation
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — ... “team of rivals” strategy for his upcoming tenure in the White House, but it’s still startling to hear that Pastor Rick Warren of Southern California’s Saddleback Church, home of the notorious “cone of silence” interviews with Obama and John McCain last August, is going to give the invocation at Obama’s inauguration on Jan. 20. This news has triggered a dismayed reaction from various groups, such as People for the American Way, which issued a statement criticizing the choice on Wednesday. ...

From the unintentionally funny department
Southern Appeal — ...  sends this gem along: In the course of arguing that Obama should not allow Warren to give the invocation[, People for the American Way notes ]:“He has recently compared marriage by loving and committed same-sex couples to incest and pedophilia. He has repeated the Religious Right’s big lie that supporters of equality for gay Americans are out to silence pastors . He has called Christians who advance a social gospel Marxists. He is adamantly opposed to women having a legal right to choose an abortion.”

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RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... The unintentional hilarity can be seen in every phase of this, as well, from the gay lobby’s refusal to notice the fact that Warren actually supports domestic partnerships, to the refusal to ditch the belief that Obama Rorschach really was what they so desperately wanted to believe it was, to the ironic ravings of groups People for the American Way who want Warren disinvited (”silenced”) because, “He has repeated the Religious Right’s big lie that supporters of equality for gay Americans are out to silence pastors.” ...

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