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Obama Decides to Christen Rick Warren the New Billy Graham
Taylor Marsh —
... and homophobic. Of course, she’s not Obama’s buddy either, so she’s out. (I’m also unaware if she plays basketball.)
That I’m not surprised he picked Warren tells you where I think Obama is heading and he’s not even been inaugurated yet. He’s made few happy with this
one, however. It’s like Obama decided purposefully to give liberals the finger. It’s not gone unnoticed by other Obama supporters either.
"Ugh," says Andrew Sullivan, feeling the same as I do, that Obama giving a nod to ...
DAY'S END ROUNDUP
News —
... announcement that Rev. Rick Warren of Saddleback church will deliver the invocation at President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration has some liberals fuming, while Iraq's ambassador to the U.S. earns plaudits from conservatives for telling a D.C.-based protest group that Iraqi journalist Muntadar al-Zaidi was wrong to throw his shoes at President Bush. Warren's role in the inauguration should disabuse the public of any notions that Obama intends to advance gay rights, The Daily Dish's Andrew Sullivan writes. Warren is accused of homophobia by AMERICAblog's ...
Obama Picks Pro-Life Homophobe Rick Warren to Deliver Inaugural Invocation
Tennessee Guerilla Women —
... was a big supporter of California's Proposition 8, the ballot initiative -- outlawing gay marriage in California -- which passed on the same day that Obama won the election. Warren says he's not a homophobe. Warren says "has gay friends and has even eaten dinner in 'gay homes.'" And over at Firedoglake, this is rightly judged to be "another Donny McClurkin moment." Extreme Hillary hater Andrew Sullivan says: . . if anyone is under any illusion that Obama is interested ...
Gay Activists Saddlebacked-- Rick Warren Will Give Obama's Invocation
Gateway Pundit —
Bummer. Barack Obama threw the gay activists under the bus today and chose Evangelical Pro-Life Minister Rick Warren to give the Invocation at The Inauguration. Andrew Sullivan reacts 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 ...
Rick Warren to Give Obama Invocation, Angry Left Meltdown Ensues
JammieWearingFool —
... Christians are conservative Christians is NOT change I can believe in at all. I'm sure Obama will be awake nights worrying about this. The funny thing is, it was an overwhelming Obama vote in California that helped pass Prop 8. The angry gay left just cannot rationalize it yet that the guy they poured their gay marriage effort into also brought out the voters who reject gay marriage. When you're a single-issue voter, you're often going to be angry when you don't get your way. Mrs. Andrew Sullivan , while crestfallen, at least realizes this is all about politics. Rick ...
L vs R: A Telling Contrast In Inaugural Reactions
Riehl World View —
... A worn Sullivan just wrings his hands acknowledging the betrayal in Ugh! But then all his energies have been zapped, what with him off chasing maternity questions in the foreign and un-American land he seems to think Alaska represents. Maybe his metro-sensibilities simply can't abide a place where men are men and even women shoot deer. ...
So Obama has chosen Rick Warren to give the invocation at the inauguration ceremony.
Althouse —
... clever choice. It made me go to go back to my notes on the Saddleback Forum, the hour-long interviews that Obama and McCain gave to Rick Warren back in August. I liked Warren's style and thought Obama had a good little talk with him. Obama obviously has a problem going back to his own spiritual mentors, and this is a good chance to show some warmth to the Christian evangelicals that he offended with his unfortunate remark about bitter Americans clinging to religion. Andrew Sullivan says "Ugh": Warren is a man who believes my marriage removes his ...
Andrew Sullivan finally realizes that Obama is not perfect
Sister Toldjah —
... of Pastor Rick Warren, who opposes gay “marriage,” to deliver the inaugural invocation. Andrew Sullivan is no exception, and after two years of telling us how Barack Obama walked on water, faces the music here. ...
Dear Andrew
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
The only question is why are you surprised?
It’s not as if there was a lack of voices during the Presidential campaign saying stuff like “hey, we really don’t know who this Obama fellow is. He’s kind of an empty vessel and we seem to be projecting onto him what we like best. Anyone else concerned about that?” But unfortunately, whenever some of us brought this more-than-disconcerting point to light, people like you would either try to shout us down or–when you were feeling in a subtle mood–try to change the subject to discuss the ...
Dear Andrew
A Chequer-Board of Nights and Days —
The only question is why are you surprised ? It's not as if there was a lack of voices during the Presidential campaign saying stuff like "hey, we really don't know who this Obama fellow is. He's kind of an empty vessel and we seem to be projecting onto him what we like best. Anyone else concerned about that?" But unfortunately, whenever some of us brought this more-than-disconcerting point to light, people like you would either try to shout us down or--when you were feeling in a subtle mood--try to change the subject to discuss the identity of Trig Palin's birth mother. I ...
Invocation Frustration
Opinionator —
... in your blog betting pool for the date when Andrew Sullivan would turn on Barack Obama, well, you haven’t won yet, but your chances are looking pretty good. Sullivan is unhappy with Obama’s decision to let Rick Warren give the invocation at his inauguration.“Warren is a man who believes my marriage removes his freedom of speech and cannot say that authorizing torture is a moral failing,” Sullivan writes on his blog for The Atlantic. “Shrewd politics, but if anyone is under any illusion that Obama is interested in advancing gay equality , they should probably sober up now.” At ...
Moonbats Fume Over Warren Invocation
Moonbattery —
... chose eliminationist hate preacher Rick Warren to give the invocation at Obama's Inaguration. With this choice, Obama sends three destructive messages. Number one: In Obama's America, equal rights and reproductive freedom aren't for everyone. Number two: President-elect Obama likes sharing the national stage with hate. Number three: While Obama enjoys his equality before the law, LGBT Americans can go to Hell. Literally. Gee. Is this change we can believe in?
Andrew Sullivan:
Shrewd politics, but if anyone is under any illusion ...
What happens when you gullibly make politicians into Saviors
Cold Fury —
... . Naturally, that reliable shill and hapless good-time Charlie Andrew Sullivan is anointing his buttocks with holy oil, girding his loins, and making excuses for Obama even now (he “won’t be as bad as the Clintons,” says he), and the attendant irony is particularly delicious, given the ludicrous depths to which he’s descended in his fervor for his beloved Messiah. One can only delight in imagining the bubbling rants he’d be spewing about his pet bogeymen the “Christianists” and the coming gay Holocaust if Juanny Mav had won the election and did anything other than threaten to ...
Obama's First Major Gaffe: Anti-Gay Preacher to Deliver Inauguration Invocation
The BRAD BLOG —
... Andrew Sullivan:
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 ...
The Rick Warren Kerfuffle and The "Tolerant" Left
Stones Cry Out —
... eliminationist hate preacher Rick Warren to give the invocation at Obama’s Inaguration. With this choice, Obama sends three destructive messages. Number one: In Obama’s America, equal rights and reproductive freedom aren’t for everyone. Number two: President-elect Obama likes sharing the national stage with hate. Number three: While Obama enjoys his equality before the law, LGBT Americans can go to Hell. Literally. Gee. Is this change we can believe in?"
Andrew Sullivan: "…pandering to Christianists at his inauguration is a depressing ...
